appolose on 17 March 2009
| The_vagabond7 said: All of this is true. My gripe is more with the idea that America shouldn't go any more left based on some group of ancient holy men's ideas because socialism and other left leaning idealogies are inherently evil in a deontological way, that it's just a given that they're wrong in all their forms and at all times, and can contribute nothing because it's unamerican (Adams, Washington, Moses, they all said so more or less) is just mind boggling to me. Free market capitalism is deeply flawed in it's purest form, which is why America hasn't had it for a long time. If a person thinks that there are better ways to solve the economic crisis, fine. I can think of some other ideas myself. But the religious fervor dedicated to men who lived in different times as a justification for things being right or wrong is ridiculous. Adams was not the son of bog, so I really don't give a fuck about what he would think about today's america. |
I can understand your sentiment. But how deeply intertwined into the Constitution is economic law (I don't know that myself (embarrassingly enough)? I know about the Supreme Court's stance on FDR's economic plans (and assuming his policies were decidely not free-market), and coupling that with what may appear to some as a highly successful economic system that has leaned much more right than left, perhaps this may be more what is meant by the usual "unAmerican" critique ( at least, for some).
This isn't all too serious of a thought of mine, mind you.
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