Public education has been unionized and leftist for decades. That has indoctrinated youth with left-leaning values. Hollywood is full of leftists and Democrats because they support leftist moral decay along with defense of individual civil liberties (generally a good thing).
Democrats have supported the rise of corporatism. That networking creates extreme concentration of wealth. The United States is becoming more like Mexico in wealth distribution. Democrat leadership has appealed to populist debauchery, homosexuality, lesbianism and so forth as continuities of affirmative action. Democrat leadership has lost any ability to understand what democracy is and how it works with free enterprise and capitalism. They gloss over the loss of democracy because they aren’t capable of understanding or reforming free enterprise and democracy and their leadership became shop-steward union advocates for higher minimum wages, more abortions (including infanticide), free education, Medicare for all and so forth. Youth go along with all that.
A recent poll found that about 50% of people under age 34 support socialism. Fundamentally they aren’t political philosophers as so many of the founders were, and are content with using tired, old socialist political philosophy as their tool for merger with corporations as pseudo-socialists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydPqKhgh9Mg
In my opinion the majority are idiots that should read more political philosophy and reform free enterprise and democracy to invent new adaptations suitable for the era that would bring capitalism down to a level that it doesn’t own politics and the media, yet allow free enterprise to employ most people and serve restoration of environmental health and profit together. Several simple items such as reducing patent exclusivity to three years and giving patent holders 10% royalties from user sales thereafter, limiting the number of employees of any corporation to 20,000 people, progressive taxation with those earning more than two million annually at 80%, letting individuals own stock in no more than three corporations, creating legal hoops for eco-sustainability for business to comply with on an even field including anything imported to the U.S.A. etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Unconscious-Civilization-John-Ralston-Saul/dp/0684871084
Fundamentally one may call the mish-mash of concentrated wealth, corporatism, socialism and so forth whatever one likes, yet it doesn’t work well. Individual freedom is repressed, inventiveness stalls etc. Politicians that have no creative capacity or learning advocate off-the-shelf political theories that were meaningful a century or two or three ago. Simply passing good legislation is all that is needed to set economics and ecosphere straight, yet that idea escapes them.
The founders’ day had a lot of creative political philosophers and no corporations in existence. Neither was there much in the way of unions and broadcast media to demand socialism and conformity.
Joint stock companies are not corporations. The Hudson’s Bay and East India companies were most like modern corporations that existed during the 18th century. Nonetheless the United States was without corporations from the beginning. The Boston Manufacturing Co. in 1813 is credited as being the first industrial corporation of the United States- quite bit after 1776.
While socialists may believe they are against business and corporations, pure socialism such as that of the Soviet Union is not a direction most modern socialists admit to, instead they point to mixed economies such as that of Sweden and consider that socialist.
The actual direction that socialists have moved the past half century in the United States is toward corporatism. Obamacare was a good example of corporatism. I will suggest a good primer on the political philosophy of corporatism written in 1999- somewhat more recent that the Communist Manifesto from which socialists have found inspiration. Nonfiction Book Review: The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul, Author Free Press $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-684-83257-9
Corporatism was invented by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. It found application in Hitler’s 3rd Reich. Corporate leaders worked for the government. Hitler was put into power with help from the Storm Troopers led by Ernst Röhm. The Sturmabteilung The German Military and the Holocaust were composed of as much as 70% former socialists who believed Hitler would lead them to power and depose the former aristocracy. They were as naive as modern socialists.
Democrats have supported the rise of corporatism. That networking creates extreme concentration of wealth. The United States is becoming more like Mexico in wealth distribution. Democrat leadership has appealed to populist debauchery, homosexuality, lesbianism and so forth as continuities of affirmative action. Democrat leadership has lost any ability to understand what democracy is and how it works with free enterprise and capitalism. They gloss over the loss of democracy because they aren’t capable of understanding or reforming free enterprise and democracy and their leadership became shop-steward union advocates for higher minimum wages, more abortions (including infanticide), free education, Medicare for all and so forth. Youth go along with all that.
A recent poll found that about 50% of people under age 34 support socialism. Fundamentally they aren’t political philosophers as so many of the founders were, and are content with using tired, old socialist political philosophy as their tool for merger with corporations as pseudo-socialists.
In my opinion the majority are idiots that should read more political philosophy and reform free enterprise and democracy to invent new adaptations suitable for the era that would bring capitalism down to a level that it doesn’t own politics and the media, yet allow free enterprise to employ most people and serve restoration of environmental health and profit together. Several simple items such as reducing patent exclusivity to three years and giving patent holders 10% royalties from user sales thereafter, limiting the number of employees of any corporation to 20,000 people, progressive taxation with those earning more than two million annually at 80%, letting individuals own stock in no more than three corporations, creating legal hoops for eco-sustainability for business to comply with on an even field including anything imported to the U.S.A. etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Unconscious-Civilization-John-Ralston-Saul/dp/0684871084
Fundamentally one may call the mish-mash of concentrated wealth, corporatism, socialism and so forth whatever one likes, yet it doesn’t work well. Individual freedom is repressed, inventiveness stalls etc. Politicians that have no creative capacity or learning advocate off-the-shelf political theories that were meaningful a century or two or three ago. Simply passing good legislation is all that is needed to set economics and ecosphere straight, yet that idea escapes them.
The founders’ day had a lot of creative political philosophers and no corporations in existence. Neither was there much in the way of unions and broadcast media to demand socialism and conformity.
Joint stock companies are not corporations. The Hudson’s Bay and East India companies were most like modern corporations that existed during the 18th century. Nonetheless the United States was without corporations from the beginning. The Boston Manufacturing Co. in 1813 is credited as being the first industrial corporation of the United States- quite bit after 1776.
While socialists may believe they are against business and corporations, pure socialism such as that of the Soviet Union is not a direction most modern socialists admit to, instead they point to mixed economies such as that of Sweden and consider that socialist.
The actual direction that socialists have moved the past half century in the United States is toward corporatism. Obamacare was a good example of corporatism. I will suggest a good primer on the political philosophy of corporatism written in 1999- somewhat more recent that the Communist Manifesto from which socialists have found inspiration. Nonfiction Book Review: The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul, Author Free Press $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-684-83257-9
Corporatism was invented by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. It found application in Hitler’s 3rd Reich. Corporate leaders worked for the government. Hitler was put into power with help from the Storm Troopers led by Ernst Röhm. The Sturmabteilung The German Military and the Holocaust were composed of as much as 70% former socialists who believed Hitler would lead them to power and depose the former aristocracy. They were as naive as modern socialists.
