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Pete Buttigieg says capitalism a threat to democracy
Washington Examiner ^ | April 07, 2019 11:34 AM | Sean Higgins

Posted on 04/07/2019 7:11:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that capitalism is a potential threat to democracy, even in the United States.

"America is a capitalist society but it has to be a democratic capitalism. That is really important and it is slipping away from us. When capitalism comes into tension with democracy, which is more important?" the South Bend, Ind., mayor said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"I believe democracy is more important. When you have capitalism capturing democracy, where you have the kind of regulatory capture where powerful corporations can arrange the rules for their benefit, that's not real capitalism," he added.

Buttigieg used Russia as an example of what happens when capitalism gets out of control. "It turns into crony capitalism and that turns into oligarchy," he said.

Buttigieg argued that his most voters don't want this version of capitalism, noting he received support from people who must have also voted for President Trump based on the vote totals in Indiana.

Buttigieg has roughly 2.3% support, putting him in seventh place among a crowded field of candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, according to RealClearPolitics' average of polls.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; buttplug; capitalism; democrats; fascism; fruitcake; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; socialism; southbend
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

immoral freak show,.


81 posted on 04/08/2019 4:33:29 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: Lurker

Of course not. If there was ever a time for that picture of the guy in the “You keep using that word” meme to be directed it at Leftists, this would be it.


82 posted on 04/08/2019 4:45:42 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: redlegplanner

Many people on the Left are unable to control either their emotions or their actions.

That makes them unstable, unpredictable, and dangerous.


83 posted on 04/08/2019 4:46:56 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Butt lover hates the free market economy. Good. Let him go to NK, Venezuela, or Cuba.


84 posted on 04/08/2019 4:53:11 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In each lie there must be some truth. Regulatory Capture is not healthy to our Republic. Democracy or ‘Mobocracy’ (mob rule) suits such policy.


85 posted on 04/08/2019 5:24:22 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just goes to show you that an Ivy League degree and Rhoads Scholar education is meaningless. He’s nothing but a harpie.


86 posted on 04/08/2019 5:31:35 AM PDT by castowell (War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will - Von Clausewitz)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have lived in Indiana most of my life and have never heard of this fool until lately.

He lies like all the rest of the RATs.


87 posted on 04/08/2019 5:42:22 AM PDT by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican; SunkenCiv

Buttgiggity was raised a Communist. He is a Communist. Everything else out of his mouth denying it is taqiyah.


88 posted on 04/08/2019 8:12:21 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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89 posted on 04/08/2019 9:36:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

such arrogant village idiots were once driven out of town with rocks and sticks


90 posted on 04/08/2019 4:15:34 PM PDT by elbook
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Dad and I are expanding our model railroad layout. I think one of the new businesses will be 'Buttigieg Fruitcakes.' 😀 Another will be Maxine and Alexandria's College Prep Outlet - Hank Johnson branch. 😀
91 posted on 04/09/2019 8:12:22 AM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: Brilliant

Hi.

“Democracy is a threat to capitalism.”

Yep.

5.56mm


92 posted on 04/09/2019 8:15:49 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: rlmorel

According to Ballotpedia.Org, there are 286 Dems (or clowns) running...


93 posted on 04/09/2019 9:43:38 AM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: ConservaTeen

Cue up the “We’re going to need a bigger Presidential Democrat Clown Car” meme!


94 posted on 04/09/2019 9:57:56 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Know thy enemy. Especially know his family.

Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II (May 20, 1947 – January 27, 2019) was a Maltese-American literary scholar, professor and translator. He served as William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame until 2017, when he became professor emeritus. Buttigieg translated and edited the English edition of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1979. Buttigieg was born and raised in South Bend, the only child of University of Notre Dame English professors Joseph A. Buttigieg, who emigrated from the island nation of Malta, and Jennifer Anne Montgomery, a Southern Indiana native.


95 posted on 04/09/2019 10:06:05 AM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Buttigieg used Russia as an example of what happens when capitalism gets out of control. "It turns into crony capitalism and that turns into oligarchy," he said.

What alternative reality is he living in. . . . .

96 posted on 04/09/2019 10:14:03 AM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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