On 9/22/2015 2:55 PM, John Mikes wrote:
Bruno, I am at a loss with your explanation. I lived the active first
50 years of my life in Europe and never heard about such 'liberalism'
(for a short time was even connected to the Hungarian Liberal
Democratic Party).
"Liberal" was in no connection with right/wrong, or even right/left,
only pointed to some freedom of action in the political arena. And the
other thing:
Democracy IMO is an oxymoron, the full "demos" cannot exercise it's
full "cratos" for ruling, becuase every person has different aims,
goals, interests, etc. Those, who call a "majority-rule" a democracy
are establishing a minority whose interests are trampled down by the
so called "majority" which is not even so sure, to BE a majority
indeed. Voting is cheating, candidates LIE in the campaign and the
voters compromise their (real?) interests for the least controversial
lies. What is even worse: the "elected" persons don't even follow
their own lies later on in practice. They go after their (untold???)
interest. Impeachment is difficult.
One word about 'capitalism' - with a caveat not to fall into Marxist
traps:
it is the open exploitation of the power of wealth over the have-nots,
be it by employment, marketing, or production policy. Not the "haves"
- mind you, but the oligarchs, super-wealthy owners, political donors,
etc. etc. established since Adam Smith. Growth is NOT maintainable
with the limited resources existing. And a
(cut-throat?) Competition as life? thanks, but no thanks. .
Do you mean cooperative and collaborating goodwilling people dead?
Capitalism is the use of money to make more money. If you don't like
it, what freedom will you take away to prevent investing money to make
things of value and hence more money? Who will decide on which freedoms
will be forbidden?
Brent
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