According to these leaders, the United States holds a “crucial role
in the balance and injustice of international trade and development.” To
secure an “abundant life for all of God’s children,” these activists
propose “a more just acquisition and redistribution of the world’s
resources.”
Good intentions notwithstanding, enactment of their economic agenda
would actually stifle the widespread abundance produced by free market
capitalism.
This thinly veiled embrace of Marxism initially occurred at the
height of the Cold War. In the half-century prior to 1973, many
governments elsewhere forcefully enacted a “more just” redistribution.
this is example of why i love this channel. wish they kept making content. it’s actually talking about the way films are made and why some film do better at conveying emotions and telling a story than others.
You’ve seen it by now: Two women and two little children, barefoot and in diapers, fleeing teargas on the US-Mexico border. The powerful image has gone viral, and it’s not the first time. But to what end? Taken on Sunday by Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon, the photo soon appeared on the front pages and splashed across the screens of every single US mainstream media outlet. It quickly spread via social media, eclipsing every other image from the incident – in which a group of migrants from the Central American “caravans” tried to storm the US border as San Ysidro.
Trump tear gasses children!” howled the US president’s critics, using the photo as a bludgeon against the current administration’s border enforcement and immigration policies.
“These children are barefoot. In diapers. Choking on tear gas,” tweeted California’s governor-elect Gavin Newsom, a Democrat. “That’s not my America. We’re a land of refuge. Of hope. Of freedom. And we will not stand for this.”
The Washington Post used Newsom’s words as a headline, solidifying the paper’s ongoing narrative that the “caravans” departing from El Salvador and Honduras, headed to the US border through Guatemala and Mexico, were peaceful crowds of asylum-seekers, mostly women and children, driven by fear of violence and political persecution.
The Left’s silence on the human trafficking due to their advocating for open borders and wanting voters imported and all this mess is very telling.
What the hell kind of mother can’t find pants for her children??? Never mind breaking the law using them as mercy objects
Those outside of Texas probably don’t know too much about how our local tax abatements work. It’s a complicated process involving local governing boards, a small amount of public input, and a large energy company. The negotiations between the company and the commissioners or board members are hidden from public view, as they are exempt from Texas’ open meetings and public information acts.
Residents often don’t know about a project until 72 hours before a decision will be made or, like those in Comanche County, until a truck barrels down their quiet, country roads. It usually ends up being a subsidiary of a multi-billion-dollar wind company with months of hidden negotiations under their belt, versus the few locals who could make it on short notice. The results are a lack of faith in the governing process, broken relationships between residents and their elected officials (who are often friends), and an unwanted neighbor for decades to come.
Most workers own no shares and have barely benefited from record corporate profits. As G.K. Chesterton observed, “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”
When the left and right speak of capitalism today, they are telling stories about an imaginary state. The unbridled, competitive free markets that the right cherishes don’t exist today. The left attacks the grotesque capitalism we see today, as if that were the true manifestation of the essence of capitalism rather than the distorted version it has become.
CultML 