11-10-2016, 02:36 PM
(11-10-2016, 01:47 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(11-10-2016, 12:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: When you lose your business in the next recession, Classic, you may find yourself in trouble too.
I survived the great Recession and the recessions that preceded it. I'm sitting on a decent pile of cash and new assets that are free and clear. Heating is a necessity. Cooling is considered to be a necessity in today's world. The people (the market) that I do business with aren't the types of people who waste their money on foolish things, sacrifice their productive years for liberal causes or their silly socialist beliefs. I'll be fine. How about you, are you going to be fine? Do you have enough wealthy young uppity who claim to care and vote as if they seem to provide for you. Me, I happen believe that if you took Katie Perry's money and property away via socialism that she earned from capitalism that she'd turn red and begin singing for Trump.
You chose a good life-course. Congratulations!
How do you know your customers' political beliefs unless they tell you or you see bumper stickers, yard signs, or political buttons? Maybe as soon as people hear your reactionary beliefs they shut up.
Where I live, the Republican Party is mostly about banning abortion, outlawing same-sex marriage, and the veneration of firearms. I heard one supporter of the Trumpenstein monster say that and add that such was "God's Law". OK, so when did God tell him that? (We came close to a fight, and I got away from his fist).
Nothing so promotes socialism of the most dangerous variety (Marxism-Leninism) then a capitalist order that recognizes no responsibility of big landowners and industrialists to employees. Marxism-Leninism offers to jump-start economic development by getting the selfish and rapacious landlord or industrialist out of the system so that there can be more for the worker and more to invest in industry. With capitalism at its worst, the indulgence of elites is the sole objective of society.
Capitalism survives only to the extent that the non-capitalist, especially the worker, has a stake in the system. As an operator of a small independent business your survival as such may depend upon your society not fitting the Marxist caricature of capitalism.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.