The problem with Americans is they are so fucking brainwashed by the media, the political pundits, etc. that they have no clue what true capitalism and a free market really is. Most corporations in America nowadays are antithetical to everything that capitalism and the free market stands for.........competition, transparency, etc. Moreover, many Americans can't distinguish between a mega corporation and small business. This is why conservatives like the teatards are such idiots. They lump them all into the same category. Half the reason we have high taxes in this country is because the corporations don't pay their fare share and the tax money we do pay goes to bailing them out. So while the idiot right blames government for everything they fail to hold the other half of the problem accountable. All Americans have to do is take a good cold hard look around them and see how anticapitalist and anti free market their country is. We have become less of an ownership society and more of an employee based society. All the capital is flowing into the hands of a few. America is about property rights, owning land, etc. Adam Smith and John Locke the capitalist visionaries never imagined capitalism in the hands of a few mega corporations. They viewed America as a place where everyone had the opportunity to become a capitalist by owning their way of life and the income produced by productive property. But again American idiots think capitalism = consumerism and because we have mcmansions, nice cars and apple Iphones we are "capitalists". Meanwhile most Americans own little if any land, many don't own their houses, few own their cars and most don't even own their college education. Everything is owned by the banks i.e. debt. And as "ownership" dies off in the USA and everything increasingly is owned by a handful of families, people, and corporations.......so too does democracy and freedom.
