“why isn’t the GOP preaching the gospel of capitalism “
Because capitalism is not a god and there is no gospel.
In fact, capitalism is a ruthless method of maximizing value. It has no soul, it has not pity for the losers, it has no compassion. And if you happen to be one of the losers, well BOO HOO AND TOO BAD FOR YOU.
Capitalism is efficient but it is not the be all end all goal of human life.
53 posted on 12/13/2013 12:34:30 AM by staytrue: (Quoting Bigbob, ‘why isn’t the GOP preaching the gospel of capitalism’): “Because capitalism is not a god and there is no gospel. In fact, capitalism is a ruthless method of maximizing value. It has no soul, it has not pity for the losers, it has no compassion. And if you happen to be one of the losers, well BOO HOO AND TOO BAD FOR YOU. Capitalism is efficient but it is not the be all end all goal of human life.”
There's a lot of truth in what both of you are saying.
At least in America, most social conservatives understand that free enterprise is an indispensable part of a biblical worldview, and that economic freedom is essential to political freedom because political freedom can't continue in a context where government routinely takes control of private property.
That hasn't always been the case historically — Christian conservatives have sometimes allied themselves with various secular movements which weren't necessarily supporters of free enterprise — but it is the case in modern America.
But while capitalism is an important and effective means to an end, making money is not the end in and of itself.
Sodom and Gomorrah were well-watered cities on the plain and probably had a thriving economy.
The road to conservative success in our current context is not by exalting money — that leads to candidates like Mitt Romney — but rather by reminding people of the Judeo-Christian heritage of America.
That message can be, and should be, especially effective among immigrants who have Christian convictions and come from societies that still affirm the moral values our elites are attacking.
The Reagan Revolution succeeded in large measure because it convinced blue collar urban Catholics and rural Southerners — people who should have been voting their conservative moral convictions but were not — that their moral convictions should lead them out of the Democratic Party.
We can do similar things today.
If we do them, we will win, given changing demographics.
If we don't do them, our only hope of winning is that the Democratic Party's policies implode due to their inherent wrongness.
I'd rather take control of America out of the hands of Democrats while America is still in one piece than pick up the pieces of a broken America if the Democrats drop the ball and wreck it.
Capitalism... NOT CRONY Capitalism... has done more to free humans and create security and Liberty and Freedom and raise mankind out of poverty than anything else in our History. Nothing is perfect but true Capitalism is the best system of economics that man has ever created. We will not need it in Heaven but we ain’t in Heaven... yet.
LLS