Monday, March 22, 2010
I've seen a lot of terms being thrown around since health care's passage. I'm all up for political debate, but it needs to be debate within reason. So one question for everyone: How are freedom and capitalism synonymous? Answer: They're not. Why? Because freedom requires the ability to act freely. However, since you enter the system, not at the beginning, but at some point in the middle, freedom isn't free. If it were, food would be free, so you wouldn't have to work for it. In fact, all necessities would be freely available. Freedom is, according to webster's, "the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action"...does that sound like capitalism to anyone? I think not. First, we all have necessities that need to be filled. We all have to work at a job for necessities (water, food, shelter), we can not freely obtain them outside of the system. Two, we're all coerced by the rich who dominate the media and government into doing things against our best interest. Third, we're all constrained both by the government, and financial institutions. Capitalism does not provide freedom half as much as it enslaves. These are terms they're feeding you, coercing you to believe in. Capitalism and Freedom have never been synonymous, and our forefathers knew that. My message: Hey, 99 percent of the country, let's take it back from the top 1 percent. This has nothing do do with democracy/capitalism/socialism/republican/democratic, those are labels to distract you. No more talking points guys...
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freedom isn't free.
ReplyDeletethere's a hefty fucking fee.
nice polemic, juice.
unfortunately, this only skims the very top of all the crazy shit people have been saying. hopefully, with health care reform actually BENEFITING all of us, they'll calm the fuck down.
we'll see.