The fight for capitalism

[angrycarpenter]

Because I am between jobs I have a lot of time to play on the various social networking sites out there and in the lead up and aftermath of the health care bill I have heard many people rant something to the effect that we need to defeat socialism and fight for capitalism, some even suggest that the fight should be with violence. All I have to say is what has capitalism done for us lately that would be worth dying to protect?

It's not new, capitalism always asks for the ultimate sacrifice to protect it. History is filled with piles of dead poor people who died to protect someones bottom line. Time and again young men have asked themselves "why are we out on this battlefield?" and after the patriotic noise is drowned out by explosions and bloodshed the only answer they are left with is "for rich people to stay rich".

If capitalism was a single person you would hate their guts. He would never help you out under any circumstances unless you had a bunch of money to make it worth his while. He would spit on you when you are down and act like your best buddy when you had some money to spend. He would constantly tell you that your face is ugly, you're fat, your clothes are out of style, you need a bigger house, a fancier car, a more beautiful wife, and offer to sell you the cure for all of these things 24 hours a day. He would promise to hold on to your money and then lose it. He would make you sign a lengthy I.O.U to borrow his rake. He would borrow money in your name to pay his gambling debts. In short if you had "capitalism the person" for a neighbor you would want to kill him.

So why do so many people say they would lay down their lives and kill for capitalism? What has it done for us lately? It saw fit to send our factories to China. It tried to kill thousands by trying to kill health reform. It looted the treasury for trillions. It bought influence in our government to the point that we barely have any voice at all anymore. It manipulated us into god knows how many wars by now.

Back to our neighbor capitalism the person. Rather than kill him we need to get him into an entire range of twelve step programs, sensitivity training, anger management, and strict probation to get him to act like a something more than a hyena in a three piece suit. An intervention is needed here before our neighbor kills us all with his combination meth lab/armament factory/casino/mega church next door.

[Oregone]

1. Capitalism won

At least in the context of the HCR bill you are talking about. Its a pro-capitalistic reform, sad to say. Private people remain in charge of insurance, and they remain profitting from it. The government just agreed to pay them public monies to create new policies for everyone else.

[Kalun D]

2. ^^^^++++10

agree