Liberal Forum

RichClem » 26 Jul 2014 9:42 am » wrote: Not that reality ever gets in your way, but Free Market Capitalism leads to democracy and less violence.

Gosh, Clem - just one post ago, capitalism was only an economic system and had nothing to do with political systems.

But since you now have changed your mind, why has the second most freedomy capitalism on earth failed to lead to democracy, kid?

When you have a theory, and then you have an actual laboratory, and you look at the results of your theory in actual practice - and your theory is proved inaccurate - continued iterations of your theory are now articals of faith, not arguments based on reason.

RichClem » 26 Jul 2014 9:42 am » wrote: Not to mention, because Free Market Capitalism is voluntary for both parties, there is no plunder.

Oh. Is that so? Gosh. Why does the term "banana republic" exist, Ckem? Don't answer - allow me, and then you can google and live with it. It's a term that describes a government run by a dictator who supplanted the legitimate leader after American forces overthrew the nation's government at the behest of Dole, so that they could get bananas a penny cheaper from a brutalized agricultural market that was denied access to other bidders for their products.

That is a VERIFIABLE HISTORICAL EXAMPLE of capitalism at work, you clown - an example which spawned a wry expression to describe its effect, - and that is not "voluntary for both parties."