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In reply to the discussion: Americans Seem To Buy Into "Dog Eat Dog" Economy With No Safety Net. [View all]Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)...is a sin against high, holy capitalism is perhaps the most loathsome of the many toxic fables promulgated by the right wing.
This is what happens when "free enterprise" becomes progressively less regulated: radical concentration of capital at the tip-top of the wealth pyramid, corporate control of the legislative process allowing what little regulation of labor remains to heavily favor corporate interests, the reduction of the working class to just another fungible commodity.
I consider this situation to be unrecoverable, at least for the nation as currently constituted. A break-up into regional polities, some of which might actually be less overtly hostile to 95% of their population, can't happen too soon. I fear that if it doesn't, a far more radical (read: bloody beyond imagination) "correction" lies in our not-too-distant future.