Pick Your Poison

1984 or Hasbro’s Monopoly  

Capitalism, this is how I see capitalism. So capitalism makes its money from the people, because the people are consumers. And the more people consume the bigger the capitalists gets and the poorer the consumer gets.  And the way our society works it works out perfect for the capitalist. Society tells us we need more and the consumer listens and the capitalist gets richer. I would be more ok with people getting filthy rich if they would just share their wealth. If they used that money to start charities and organizations to help the poor we wouldn’t need government controlled health care, food stamps or college, because it all be paid for by filthy rich corporations.  Republicans would be happy because the governments not using their tax money to help the poor and the democrats would be happy because the poor are getting the help they need.   So capitalism without greed would be great. It would still give people a chance to build a flourishing business without government involvement.  Another thing I don’t like is the government bailing out big business. If the business fails that has nothing to do with the government.

                Socialism is kind of in between capitalism and communism. The government has a hand in almost every aspect of business. Production of goods is based solely on the needs of the people.  It’s a moderate form of communism. Socialism benefits the lower and middle classes, because of things like free health care and free school. But trying to be an entrupuneur  really sucks. The government makes it really hard for you to get rich, because your business is technically the peoples. Socialism gets in the way of the capitalistic freedom of building up your own business. With socialism there would be no Bill Gates, Carnegie, Rockefeller, or Sanford. It crushes the dream of every making it big in business. One plus is that socialism does not allow private monopoly, because the government is the monopoly. So that way one corporation cannot hold all the money and power.

                Just like were told we are democratic we are told we are capitalists but I don’t believe that either. Business are taxed, bailed out, and regulated by the government so it is not true capitalism.  If anything it’s more socialist. So I don’t agree with either form. I’d agree to a hybrid, But not Americas form. And a socialist economy would not work in America unless there was total democratic control and the taxed the rich. But if one party was in control then it wouldn’t be fair. So yeah, confusing stuff, really messes with your head.

I have never heard this quote before but I think it has too much truth to it. I also find it kind of funny that one of our founding fathers said such a dark thing about or new countries form of government. But he’s not wrong. It’d be stupid and close minded not to agree with him. Democracy is kind of a fairy tale anyway. Maybe back when we were first founded it could have worked. But with today’s high population and large corporations it’s nearly impossible to uphold democracy. Sure we elect officials to vote “for the people”, but if that was the case we wouldn’t have as much poverty and corporations wouldn’t be making billions and billions of dollars all while hurting the people.

Calling America today a democracy is the biggest joke I ever heard. John Adams was right when he said democracy does not last. Throughout our whole lives we are told that America is this great almighty democracy where the people run the country. Most believe it. But all you have to do is dig a little deeper. Number one, we don’t vote anyone into the higher levels of government. I know you’re not going to like this but voting is just an illusion. We get the idea that we think were in control of who gets elected but were not.  Popular vote just shows what the people want it’s not like they care. They already know who’s going to be president before they get “elected”. They want the one who’s going to carry out their agenda not the peoples.  The Electoral College is proof of this.  It’s where a hand full of elites has more power than the entire civilian population. It’s a joke. The definition of democracy is where the people elect those who lead.

John Adams was right democracy doesn’t last. It’s been gone for decades. Greed took away our true democracy.  I don’t even know how to describe our form of government. It’s some sort of republic totalitarian democratic hybrid built on lies I guess. It is sad that democracy in its purest form cannot survive this world.  But it’s hard with big government and greed. It’s not hard it’s impossible.  America’s not what it was when John Adams Wrote this. I wonder what he’d say now. He’d probably call for

bicameral government

 I think one of the main reasons the constitution adopted the form of bicameral government so quickly was that it was a compromise between two of the proposed plans, The New Jersey Plan and The Virginia Plan. In the bicameral system everyone has equal say in the senate and states with more people have bigger influence in the house. It just makes sense. Also two houses allow the one to keep the other in check. Another reason for adopting it was that Great Britain had been using it since the 1300’s and they saw that this section  of their government was good.