Corporatism and Socialism in America

Principled advocacy of the free market requires an understanding of the differences between genuine free enterprise and “state capitalism.”

Although the Left frequently exaggerates and overemphasizes the evils of corporate America, proponents of the free market often find themselves in the awkward position of defending the status quo of state capitalism, which is in fact a common adversary of the free marketer and the anti-corporate leftist, even if the latter misdiagnoses the problem and proposes the wrong solutions...

Indeed, corporatism, implemented by the state — whether through direct handouts, corporate bailouts, eminent domain, licensing laws, antitrust regulations, or environmental edicts — inflicts great harm on the modern American economy. Although leftists often misunderstand the fundamental problem plaguing the economy, they at least recognize its symptoms...

Conservatives and many libertarians, on the other hand, frequently dismiss many ills such as poverty as fabricated by the left-liberal imagination, when in fact it does a disservice to the cause of liberty and free markets to defend the current system and ignore very real and serious problems, which are often caused by government intervention in the economy. We should recognize that state corporatism is a form of socialism, and it is nearly inevitable in a mixed economy that the introduction of more socialism will cartelize industry and consolidate wealth in the hands of the few....

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Especially relevant in the age of Oracle and Palantir.

These two powerful corporations now control a majority of U.S. government infrastructure, from healthcare to defense.

’Downsizing government’ - has been a conservative mantra for decades.

Most of us believed that downsizing would result in a more efficient and responsive government, in saving money and lowering taxes.

’Downsizing government’ actually meant ‘outsourcing government,’ and that when implemented, the downsizing wouldn’t actually lower taxes or save money. It would just reroute federal funds to the corporate winners.

That the act of downsizing, and the reasons for it - are really about building surveillance infrastructure.

Just like illegal immigration has been the excuse for building surveillance infrastructure currently in use: biometric scanning in public, and a complex nationwide road surveillance system. Neither of these systems contain protections for American citizens, although they are creepy enough when used just for illegals.

The inner workings of our government are now controlled by private companies with little oversight.

The template currently being implemented will be a self-sustaining government model, largely powered by AI.

The government will save hundreds of billions of dollars annually. But the savings won’t be used to pay down debt or benefit taxpayers. There will ALWAYS be a new need for funds, new excuses why they can’t lower taxes, and why those powerful (not American) interests who game the current system, as they have for decades - will continue to devour the capital produced by the labor of Americans.

That’s how the system was built and nothing changes, except ALOT less freedom for the people who pay for it all.

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