The Biggest Supporters of Socialism Are Capitalists
You know what? I am sick and tired
of hearing about socialism being this big frigging threat to human
civilization. I am. I’m sick of hearing about how the whole wide
world will just come falling apart because some tenant of socialism gets put
into practice somewhere instead of some good old-fashioned “’Merican capitalism”!
What pisses me off the most is that the loudest arguments for socialism
in any form are coming from those very “capitalists” that are crying foul about
it.
Take a look at the scam called healthcare in America. Yes, we have the Affordable Care Act, which
the conservatives and neo-conservatives have been waging an unholy scorched-earth
crusade to destroy by any means necessary.
They’ve sabotaged Congress, even shut down the federal government, all
in the name of this cause which they claim “imposes socialism”.
What a twenty-ton crock of cow feces!
Yes, one of the original ideas was to have what could be best described
as “Medicare-for-all”, which would be considered socialized medicine. But that is not what the American people
ended up with through this law!
We are forced to buy health insurance thanks to a legal leap that even the
late Evil Knievel couldn’t pull off with a space shuttle! Will all afforded respect to the justices of
the U.S. Supreme Court, we can chose to not drive a car, but we cannot chose to
not live unless you decide to legalize suicide-on-demand, so using the driver’s
license idea is not a valid justification for the ACA. But that is precisely what we are forced to
do in America. We are forced by law to
buy a commercial product. That’s not
socialism; that’s corporatism.
So what do we get? We get health
insurance programs whose premiums are continuing to go up. We have insurance companies that decide they
don’t want to be in the “exchange” program anymore and are instead going back
to deciding who gets to pay big money for the “privilege” of being covered by
them. We have insurance companies having
pissing contests with regional hospitals over coverage and how much money they
can make off us. In other words, the
American people continue to get screwed.
And let’s not forget Big Pharma!
We have big drug companies giving themselves monopolies and then gouging
the public with medicine that they have to pay for in order to live! And there’s nothing that can be done about
it. It’s all legal. Hell, the champions of capitalism would even
wrap themselves in the American flag over it and say “it’s the free market,
baby! Gawd bless ‘Merica!”
Actually, no, if it was really the free market at work, there would be
real competition instead of government-sanctioned monopolies. You’d be seeing more generics on the market,
and the government wouldn’t be giving preference as it does today. But that’s neither here nor there because we’re
supposedly in a “socialist” system now, even though we’re far from it.
You see folks, the sham that we call the Affordable Care Act only works
if the big corporations in the Healthcare business play along and behave. But, then again, if they did, then we really
wouldn’t have needed the ACA in the first place.
The very reason why there is even a call for the ACA or even for a real
socialized version of healthcare is because big corporate executives in the
healthcare business and the insurance business and the drug business all got
greedy and put profits ahead of people. And
even when the ACA became law and it got passed the Supreme Court, they still
operate under the presumption that they can continue to put profits ahead of
people and screw America over.
So now the only way out of this mess is either convincing the greedy corporate
bastards and their equally greedy investors to stop putting profits over people
and get their act together, or else watch as the government starts imposing
actual socialized healthcare. And the longer
they are allowed to continue to put profits over people and screw the American
people over, the louder and louder the call will be for the government to do
something to fix this. It’s like putting
a bunch of reckless speeders behind the wheel on the empty promise that they’d
change their ways, and then wonder why they
slammed into a school bus at 70mph in a residential neighborhood. Sooner or later, someone will have to tell
them to use public transportation.
And they’re not the only ones doing it either!
Wells Fargo, one of the “Too Big To Fail” entities that we got bullied
into bailing out in 2008, recently got caught creating
multiple fraudulent accounts for millions of their customers all so they
can pad
their books. They just paid a pittance
of a fine and fired over 5000 of the employees affected... in other words, par
for the course. The executive
responsible? She was allowed to leave
before the whole thing happened, so she got to keep her nine-figure
golden parachute.
And yet we’re supposed to “trust” these banks. It’s pretty clear they
haven’t learned a single goddamned thing since the Great Recession, other than
how to hide the bodies better and to diffuse the blame.
So what are we supposed to do, huh?
Go to another bank? What stops
them from playing the same game? We
learned that from the Great Recession, when all the banks played the same game
and they all led us to the same catastrophe.
It seems to me that these so-called “Capitalist winners” are doing the very
things that encourage socialism, not discourage it.
Let’s get brutally honest here... if you do not want socialism in
American society, then you have to do more than just bitch about it, more than
just wail and moan on talk radio about it, you have to actually do the things
that make the need for it irrelevant!
Every single time a company screws over the public, no matter of that is
a mom-and-pop operation, some fly-by-night business, or a big corporation with
a Wall Street presence, they are a screaming advertisement for socialist
programs. They’re all saying “Look at
us! We can’t be controlled! We’re greedy money-grubbing monsters that you
can’t stop! You can’t protect yourselves
from us! If you want us reined in, then you
need to put your trust in something bigger than us and something even worse
than us! If you want to be protected from
the likes of us, you need socialism!”
When businesses tell us to put our trust in them instead of government
oversight, they are obligated to make sure that trust is not in vain. They are telling the consumers “we value you
most of all”. But greedy money-grubbing corporations
like those that infest healthcare and insurance and banking industries, along
with a few other industries, tell us a different story, and they tell it to us
every time they screw us over. They
constantly tell us “We have a higher obligation to our bottom line and to our
investors, than we have to you, the consumers.
They are more important than you!”
Those are the groups that invite socialism and socialist programs in! They are the biggest supporters and
cheerleaders for socialism through their abusive and predatory actions. They validate every argument for socialism
more so than a million Hillary Clintons and a billion Elizabeth Warrens and a
trillion Bernie Sanders.
You want that to change, Big Corporate?
You need to change yourselves first!
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