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.
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immoral freak show,.
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.
Many people on the Left are unable to control either their emotions or their actions.
That makes them unstable, unpredictable, and dangerous.
Butt lover hates the free market economy. Good. Let him go to NK, Venezuela, or Cuba.
In each lie there must be some truth. Regulatory Capture is not healthy to our Republic. Democracy or ‘Mobocracy’ (mob rule) suits such policy.
Just goes to show you that an Ivy League degree and Rhoads Scholar education is meaningless. He’s nothing but a harpie.
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.
Buttgiggity was raised a Communist. He is a Communist. Everything else out of his mouth denying it is taqiyah.
such arrogant village idiots were once driven out of town with rocks and sticks
Hi.
“Democracy is a threat to capitalism.”
Yep.
5.56mm
According to Ballotpedia.Org, there are 286 Dems (or clowns) running...
Cue up the “We’re going to need a bigger Presidential Democrat Clown Car” meme!
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.
What alternative reality is he living in. . . . .
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