TAC: Capitalist Tool

TAC:

“Bernie Sanders. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Tucker Carlson. If one of those names on a list of examples of ascendant socialism strikes you as out of place, you may have missed weeks of debate on the Right over a reasonable comment made by the popular Fox News host.

“Market capitalism is not a religion. Market capitalism is a tool, like a staple gun or a toaster,” Carlson said. “Any economic system that weakens and destroys families isn’t worth having.” Does this observation make Tucker a socialist? Hardly. As is often the case, TAC founding editor Patrick J. Buchanan was more than a decade ahead of the curve.

“To me, the country comes before the economy; and the economy exists for the people,” Buchanan said in a 1998 speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. “I believe in free markets, but I do not worship them. In the proper hierarchy of things, it is the market that must be harnessed to work for man—and not the other way around.” …”

From my perspective:

– Political power
– Political correctness
– Free market capitalism
– Tax cuts
– The US Empire
– Absurd levels of military spending
– Absurd levels of income inequality
– Absurd cultural norms aka Clown World
– Foreign wars which make no sense
– Israel and AIPAC
– Jewish power and influence in general
– Millennials trapped in debt slavery to banks
– The deracinated and demoralized masses who used to be the American people
– Feminism
– “Judeo-Christianity”
– Have you ever read Ayn Rand?

I could continue, but that is how “mainstream conservatism” looks to people like me. Don’t even get me started on the nepotism and mediocrity. Diamond and Silk?

Note: I would rather read Aristotle, Luther, Hegel, Nietzsche, etc. I would also say we need Yang to restore economic independence to everyone so they don’t have to be a wage slave to a wealthy donor. Otherwise, “conservatism” will get more Charlie Kirks.