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I like these two articles, reposting portions of them.
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I like these two articles, reposting portions of them.
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A Nation Of Free
Men Or Free Things
by Tyler Durden
Thu, 07/04/2019 - 16:15
…There is a big difference between a free country and a
country of free things. You can have one or the other, but you can’t have both.
A free country isn’t obsessed with free riders, only a country of free things
obsesses with making everyone pay their fair share for the benefit of the
people who want the free things. The rugged individualism of Colonial America
has given way to stifling crowds, co-dependent on each other, lined shoulder to
shoulder, clutching at each other’s wallets, crying, “Take from him and give to
me.
… The Fourth of July is Independence Day, but every other
day is Co-Dependence Day, the days we celebrate our integration, our
volunteerism and our compliance with a vast system which makes everyone
dependent on the government and which makes the government dependent on
everyone who still works for someone other than the government—including the
freest of free riders, who work for themselves. Empires function by draining
every drop from their possessions to cover their costs. The British Crown tried
to drain America to pay down its debt, resulting in growing protests from the
population and eventually a revolution. Now the Empire of Co-Dependency is
draining its independent subjects for the benefit of its dependent subjects and
the dependency infrastructure that employs its numberless bureaucrats who
govern it all.
… A nation where everyone is part of one great
co-dependent community, a centrally planned marketplace that can only be
balanced if everyone is forced to buy what they are told to buy, is not a free
nation. It will not even be independent for long. The logic of co-dependence is
to expand that dependency beyond the borders and make the region and then every
part the world dependent on one another to balance out the numbers.
… the light of Independence Day fades and the crowds
slowly trudge away from the brief spectacle, past the lines of police
barricades, through narrow streets, past government buildings, back to their
co-dependent lives in a co-dependent nation where the will of the people and
the rights of the individual matter less than the latest proposal to solve the
problems of their independence by making the country a more dependent place.
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Corporate
America's Virtue-Signaling Is Opportunist, Dangerous, And Undermines The Spirit
Of Capitalism
Authored by Robert Bridge via RT.com
Fri, 07/05/2019 - 21:45
Once upon a time, the raison d'être of US companies was
to simply make a buck. Those days are long gone. Today, corporations are in the
business of radicalizing the country by taking sides in cultural standoffs.
… (Nike) The Fortune 500 tennis shoe maker, with $30
billion in annual global sales, announced it would cancel the release of its
‘Air Max 1’ trainers after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick told the
company “he and others” found the Betsy Ross-era flag that adorned the sneaker
“offensive.” Why? Because the symbol was stitched at a time when slavery was
still part of the fledgling nation’s experience. And since a handful of
right-wing ‘white supremacist’ groups have reportedly been seen waving this
flag (as well as former President Barack Obama, incidentally), which celebrates
the original 13 US colonies and their successful fight against the British
crown, suddenly it is deemed toxic and unworthy of the mighty Nike.
… Considering everything that is at stake, it would seem
far more expedient for corporations to stick to the capitalist credo of making
a profit and distance themselves from the cultural battles now raging across
the land. Nothing less than the very survival of American democracy, which
provides the groundwork for free markets and capitalism, is at stake.
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Many free marketers now are silent at the absurdity of
socialist Democrats' free-free promises, but very vocal at frequently attacking
Trump who plans to cut those endless freebies. It's all about personal hatred
and angst against the man.
Contrast the leading Democrats with this leader,
“Here, in the
United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country.
America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion,
domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free.”
— President Donald Trump, State of the Union Address
February 5, 2019.
Trump vows America
will 'never be a socialist country'
Posted Feb 05 2019 10:59PM EST
Video Posted Feb 05 2019 11:28PM EST
Updated Feb 06 2019 07:55AM EST
See also:
Pol Ideology 73, On BIG powerful government, March 14, 2018
Pol. Ideology 74, Property protection under minimal government, August 06, 2018
Pol. Ideology 75, Green New Deal and ecological socialism, February 10, 2019.
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