I always tell lefties here on ImgFlip to aways, when possible, go to the source. Do not trust any journalist because they have no journalist integrity. The report what they are told to report not the facts. If it promotes the leftist agenda then it gets reported, if it does not then it does not get reported. ORRRRRRR if they do report it, nothing in that report will be true. It will be total fabrication just to make the left look good and the right look bad.
No, because when you take any of our basic rights away, you also destroy capitalism. Capitalism does not work when any freedoms are lost.
If you take away free speech then how is a business supposed to advertise. How is one person supposed to freely tell another person about the good service they got at Acme Products?
Capitalism completely falls apart when there is any kind of authoritarian oppression happens. The more freedom people have and the less government intervention in the market place, the more prosperous everyone becomes.
We do not have anywhere close to the freedoms we used to have. I have even seen freedoms disappear in my lifetime. We really do not have a capitalistic society. Capitalism lives more in small businesses than it does in medium to large businesses. What we have is corporatism. The government intrudes far too much in the business world and that intrusion gets between you, the customer, and the business when you buy their product.
"Authoritarian capitalism" is just as crazy as calling a person a "sane schizophrenic". Even though it has been taught in public schools and colleges ever since WWII it is just as crazy as saying a "right-wing Nazi" or "right-wing fascist". Progressives in an attempt to distance themselves from those two ideologies that they used to praise started calling the people who supported the US Constitution and individual liberty by those names. They invented this bizarre scale that put socialism and communism on the far left and Nazis and fascists on the far right.
What the morons who invented this scale hope you will never do is find out what Nazis and fascists believe. That is why the definitions for those two political ideologies have been scrambled and no one seems to know what they really mean.
I cut through all of the BS and found out that fascism's creator, Giovanni Gentile, said (paraphrasing) that fascism is a better version of socialism. Nazi is an acronym that when translated into English is National Socialist German Workers Party. That puts both of those ideologies on the far left with socialism.
What is at the far right? Anarchy, no government at all. The far left is total government control. The free market cannot truly be free unless there is anarchy. Once there is a government then it becomes less free and the farther to the left society goes the less free until it is no longer a free market.
Before Karl Marx called it capitalism it was called the free market. You cannot have a free market when the people and the businesses are not free.
Capitalism or Free Market economics is only about buying and selling a product or service. That's it. Nothing else.
If you have a widget and I want it and you are willing to sell it then I give you however much money you think that widget should cost. Or we can negotiate the cost of the widget and I then pay you an amount we settled on.
It doesn't even involved money. If you have an apple and I have a peach we can trade. Bartering is also capitalism.
If there is anything authoritarian in buying or selling a product then all or some part of that has to be forced. If it is forced then it is no longer a free market.
I understand now. You are being held hostage by ruthless liberals and you cannot tell me that I am right. Blink twice if I am correct, blink once if you are wrong.
