>>>Our economic system is free enterprise, the creation and marketing of goods and services. We call it the free market. The Left calls it Capitalism, the manipulation of money.
>>Are the Democrats Left or Right?
Nothing is that cut and dry and you know it. Joseph Borkin, the chief economic advisor of the Anti-trust Division of the Department of Justice, during his investigation of companies involved with funding WW2 showed how panopolies, when companies enter into vehicles of cross agreements, and capitalism was being used to implement socialism. Global panopolies was never the true intention of a free market. That creates the reverse affect.
Sure, I know it but I am not inclined to do an essay on it in this space.
I will offer another short observation. The free market is the best economic system with as few regulations as possible to keep the biguns from eating the littleuns. A government with limited powers and as few laws as necessary to keep order is the best government.
However, both rely on honest trustworthy people in the governed and the governors. That was the basis of this country and the principles still apply. A free country such as ours is easy to exploit by the unscrupulous. Our enemies use our freedoms and morality to destroy both.
Self-interest is human nature. When operating lawfully in the free market it artfully transforms the desires of the individual into a good for the whole. When it is operating in government, with the power of force behind it, it can easily become a bad for the whole. We are seeing that played out now.
People and morality are the key. A free system will regulate itself.