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Cyrano

(15,043 posts)
2. There are those who will fight to the death for it,
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 11:06 AM
Jan 2020

even though they are its victims. The word was made into the equivalent of Democracy, God, America in the 20th century. The vast majority of Americans never got the fact that it was holding them down and, in many cases, destroying them.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
4. So many Americans IMO are slow learners and seem to revel in being brainwashed and
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 11:13 AM
Jan 2020

taken for suckers. Even the incredible imbalance of wealth in the US does not seem to phase many.

rampartc

(5,420 posts)
3. keynes' definition still applies
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 11:08 AM
Jan 2020

“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. " j m keynes

SWBTATTReg

(22,144 posts)
7. That's why I call it predatory capitalism...it's gotten worse w/ the aid and complicity of the...
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 01:47 PM
Jan 2020

republicans and the 1%ers over the last 30-40 years...

VOX

(22,976 posts)
9. Because privatizing everything in sight is GOOD FOR AMERICA!
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 03:34 PM
Jan 2020

Still waiting for those beneficent mega-corporations to solve the homelessness crisis, give billions to support public education, and take care of the healthcare problems that plague the country.

But their adolescent Ayn-Randian bullshit approach only continues to make things worse. (Except for corporations’ obscene profit.)
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