The typical conservative response within the United States is that capitalism is God since a majority of the gibbering imbeciles are religious believing that it is also bestowed by God or the divine. If it isn’t that then capitalism is attributed to nature where it is a representation of the natural world itself where of course none of them it would seem are smart enough to see the irony in any of that. Since an early age Americans are told that American capitalism is what separates us from all other nations and is what makes us better than everybody else if not superior concerning that iconic thought of so called American exceptionalism yet since very recently it has become increasingly obvious it is this same pervasive socio economic ideology that is destroying our nation rotting from within. What is the response of capitalists seeing the obvious destructive tendencies of capitalism that they cannot deny publicly? They’ll insist that it isn’t the true uncorrupt form of capitalism stating that in order to fix the destructive tendencies of capitalism that we have currently we must return to a more purer state of capitalism! They call this impure form of capitalism crony-capitalism. If that is a case I just have one question, when has the purer form of capitalism ever existed historically before it devolved into crony- capitalism? The way I see it capitalism since its very inception has always been a form of crony capitalism since the very foundation of capitalism itself is a kind of cronyism and yes, it is capitalism itself that is destroying this nation!
Once more the narrative of working hard and gaining benefit through a capitalist system as a narrative no longer applies anymore in that if anything in the new era of economic globalism has effectively shown this. How are individuals suppose to work hard and benefit in this economic system where their entire national manufacturing, industrial, and production areas of their country has been outsourced overseas to other countries? What happens when all the high income and quality life fulfilling work is outsourced, made obsolete, replaced by computers, or replaced by machines? Then what? What happens when you deindustrialize an entire nation turning it into a decadent consumer nation of financial debt beholden to corporate banks that revolves around a self destructive service economy? What does the American conservative capitalist mind say then?
We need to start questioning various assumptions of capitalism and more importantly question the mentality that capitalism is inherently good or beneficial for a nation. I’m creating this thread today as an illustration of how capitalism isn’t good for a nation where in fact it is a poisonous ideology that only benefits a small portion of society where it isn’t life affirming of a nation whatsoever in that it is the path to national ruin.