Many Americans seem worryingly brainwashed by their media, it's difficult to get a balanced picture there. The powerful right-wing own most of the media so of course they would peddle rampant capitalism because they are the ones that have benefited in the first place. The same goes for the all-powerful lobby groups, who buy and financially blackmail their way to government influence. Then because these same groups dominate the media, they propagate the madness of the capitalist system and everyone believes it.
No1 Rule of Life - check your sources people!! Journalists and news corporations are not the word of God!! They have agendas and opinions just like everyone else, what would most people do if they became powerful enough? Influence people to think their way of life is right, right? It's just common sense, how can the public still have faith in capitalism when it's proven to be disastrous to families all over the world?
And then politicians there want LESS regulation and smaller government?? So greedy and careless investments can take priority over THE PEOPLE yet again? This is insanity. I read an article that in a majority of a poll, the question posed was 'Should a sick 17-year-old die because they have no medical insurance?' The resounding answer was YES. What has the world come to when people would choose capitalism over the life of a child? The fact that the US is the only developed country to not provide universal healthcare is something they should be ashamed of, not revel in.
Aside from the media propaganda, other reasons that I can fathom as to why they hold capitalism so dear is that less government means less taxes, especially for healthcare. So private companies stepping in where government agencies would have been means more competition and therefore higher efficiency and less cost. Is this what happened with oil companies? Well the prices at your local filling station will tell you otherwise. The price of oil can just keep on going up as the oil barons please, where is the competitiveness and efficiency in that? The price of oil then affects everything, the price of food, the sick and disabled who need to use their car to get around, EVERYTHING. The US government contracts out their war machines to private contractors too, thus ensuring the safety of nations in the hands of people who profit from war. How can this kind of privatisation be right?
Just because Americans lost many soldiers in fighting communism it doesn't mean the polar opposite; unfettered capitalism, is the solution!!!
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