Goy…
It is unfortunate for you and your cause that everyone can speak with some civility, except you. As you try to make your point, your inhumanity shows as you personally attack anyone who opposes you. You embody everything that is wrong with a “pure capitalist” society. Greed is the real reason that “pure capitalism” doesn’t work. Greed at the expense of humanity. What you call “straw man fallacies” are in fact not fallacies at all. Pure Capitalism is the fallacy. What capitalism needs is oversight by real people who’s number one concern is not making money, but the greater good of humanity.
-you say…Since the 1930s, the U.S. has grown slowly more socialist with each passing decade. As that has happened, we’ve also grown deeper in debt, more distrusted and disliked abroad, more conflicted within, fatter, lazier, more apathetic, more emotionally disturbed, more medicated and more ignorant. Capitalism was not the cause of all that.
In fact the absolute opposite is true. This country’s massive corporate takeover began in the early 1900s, and in fact capitalism is the absolute cause of every problem you have listed.
