I think the word “but” should be replaced by the word “and” in the title.
What Americans say and how they vote are 2 different things. Ask these same people if they are willing to give up their subsidies, government loans, welfare, licensing rules that protect them from competitors, etc. and I’m sure you will get a much different response.
Some of the biggest beneficiaries of government spending are businesses of various kinds. Food stamps are a boon to farmers and grocery store owners.
The U.S. is already a functional State Capitalist/Police State.
With 40% marginal tax rates on anyone with an income over subsistence, and the “Public” portion of the economy running at 30% (which is way low), we now have an economy which is more about government then England in the Middle Ages under Feudalism.
The Police State is necessary to keep the Serfs working and to put down any unrest when they sense that the Aristocratic Class living in the Beltway might really just be unnecessary and are nothing more then parasites.
There is no investment based on pooled capital; it’s all funny money from the Reserve Bank, and debt on a scale unseen in human history.
And the only beneficiaries are the Made Guys who work in the bureaucracies, who figured out long ago that Civil Service now means working for biggest and baddest gang in town. Nothing More.
Is it a free market system when there is so much corruption?
I don’t think that the situation we’re in such that the chamber of Commerce is so influential over politicians (republicans) that we can’t even get our borders closed when there’s a deadly virus, never mind changing our language and culture for the southern out of control migration) is actually free market capitalism.
We think of the monopoly guy, and kids getting into their careers are dreaming of six figures with no one to disabuse them of that drug induced notion, but it’s really the small business operator who runs the machine, and they are on the wane
Democrats aggressively oppose voter ID and promote Motor Voter registration for a reason. Democrats cheat in elections for a reason.
They have to cheat because if they didn't, they'd lose. Why? Because they're the minority. However, they dominate in the media and pop culture, creating the illusion that there are more of them than there actually are. Sure, there are a lot of leftists and liberals in America, but not enough to win elections legitimately. THAT's why they have to cheat. And the reason so many Americans hold their fellow Americans in contempt for "electing these clowns" is because they have been bamboozled by the MSM/pop culture illusion that liberals are the majority, when in reality liberals are ONLY the majority in the MSM/pop culture and fraudulently-won elected office.
Everywhere else, in real America, on the ground, liberals are scorned and held in contempt by MOST people, probably two out of three or very close to it.
There are so many whining whimpering self-pitying conservatives who wail about how "stupid" Americans are. Just talked with one last night, in fact, who clung tightly and stubbornly to his ego-gratifying position of perceiving himself as the small group of conservatives in America who are so much SMARTER than "everybody else." But when I asked him, repeatedly: "So why do Democrats cheat in elections?"
He had no answer. None.
~the US: 70% of Americans still think most people are better off under a free-market system, even if some people are rich and some are poor. ~
Well, we can only hope they are honest. Mankind has a chance in this case.
Yeah, yeah. That’s what they say but I’ll bet if you asked about individual issues as to who should pay for their education, medical, etc the answer would be Government. (aka taxpayers)
“The future is dark”
That sounds racist to me but true.
A country that leaves its borders open in the face of such disease and pestilence because it has become so crippled by PC mindthink, is a country that has sunk to almost unfathomable weakness. Add the sheer moral depravity of things like homo-marriage into the mix, and it appears nothing less than suicidal.
America has become a gutless and depraved nation. And, yes, it does kill me to both recognize that and say that. A few short generations ago, we were “John Wayne’s America.” But now we’re a weak, faggoty “pajama boy” nation. Just look at the pathetic leaders we’ve elected to run the country for evidence. The future indeed looks dark.
Would be nice if we actually had one.
I certainly wish the US had a free market system
I have come up with a standard answer for these libtard edumacated teenagers who come out of high-school spouting off about how bad capitalism is.
I tell them “A wise man once said that Capitalism is the worst system there is- except for all t5he others...
“It may be brutal and ugly and stupid at times, but it is the only system that lets YOU decide what to do with YOUR OWN MONEY- instead of the Government making brutal and ugly and stupid decisions with your money.”
“My future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades” has morphed into “My future’s so dim, I gotta wear night-vision goggles.”
I was watching a sociologist author on CSPAN being interviewed by Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of facebook. She was discussing a book/study she had completed of more than 50 families of different income levels. Her opinion was typical for most leftists. Basically, she thinks your economic outcome is decided by the system\class and little if anything is decided by your personal character or hard work. Of course it is lot easier to run a race if you are given a big head-start, but I do think that personal traits and hard work determine if you end up gaining or losing ground from where you started. So, hard work and determination do matter despite what leftists say.
and we love our guns and religion too!!!!!!!!!