@marklevinshow Because they’re not our ally. And most Americans want nothing to do with Middle East conflicts and wars. Tired of endless money printing and inflation for wars and taxes going to fraud and foreign aid.
Explain to me how it was an accident if the attack on the USS Liberty went on for over an hour while it was waving an American flag. Prior to the attack, Israeli pilots did a fly over and waved at the American sailors as they waved back.
Their plan was to kill everyone, leaving no witnesses, so they could blame it on Egypt. Only reason they called off the attack was because another American vessel was coming over the horizon to aid the Liberty.
Point is, America is already socialist. And socialism is clearly shit in practice. It just leads to more centralized planning mechanisms, because individuals don’t have private property rights within the means of production under socialism.
If you want the decisions toward the allocation of scarce resources which have alternative uses to be decentralized, individuals have to have property rights.
There’s no private property in socialism within the means of production. Capital is a means through which one can produce. Individuals don’t have a right to their capital (e.g., purchasing power of their savings account, their income, their person, or their home) under the current American system. Therefore, America is within the spectrum of socialism.
Doesn’t matter what the intent of socialism is, what matters are the mechanisms. And if individuals don’t have property rights, it leads to central planning mechanisms.
You don’t really have 3 very important property rights in America. (1) you don’t have a right to your person (you have to pay a fee in the form of income tax to stay free); (2) you don’t have the right to your home (you’re leasing it from the government via property tax); (3) you don’t have a right to your past spent time and energy in the form of savings (your savings is robbed from you via money printing, devaluation, and inflation).
Capitalism (in the Austrian economic sense of the term) is an absolute; you either have property rights or you don’t. Planned economies like socialism are a spectrum, because there’s all sorts of different mechanisms that can be used to prevent or infringe on property rights to different degrees. What you’re calling crony capitalism is just another centrally planned economy within that spectrum.
They don’t obtain that wealth through consent. They obtain most of it from the debasement of the currency. Central banks and government increase the supply of money, devaluing it and raising the value of assets owned by corporations and the wealth class. This redistributes the wealth from those saving in the currency (lower and middle class) into the hands of those closest to the money printer and those with assets. Take the control of the money supply away from government and this goes away. Money printing is not a free market characteristic by definition because it’s in the hands of central planners only. This is not capitalism.
Giant corporations only exist because (1) they get subsidized by the government; (2) the assets they obtain get pumped in value by government money printing; (3) the companies aren’t allowed to fail (they either get bailouts, or another company is funded by money printing to buy them out); (4) the government is allowed to be lobbied to write laws that eliminate competition. This isn’t “unfettered capitalism.” This is central planning mechanisms. A centrally planned economy is not capitalism.