SURELY, AN AMERICAN DILEMMA .......

Nobody in his right mind could accuse or state that any past American president up to and  including president Obama, of being anything but full capitalists in all aspects of the word . Except that modern capitalist societies have nowadays accepted and adopted more social steps and programs all over the world. Mostly upholding and maintaining the various practices and institutions needed in every society .

Practices and institutions for almost every normal citizen to enjoy, things like real freedom , real opportunities, and a healthy distribution of wealth and the general prosperity of any nation . Plus of course the basics of modern life in a modern world, like a full right to a universal health care system for all to enjoy, affordable education possibilities and opportunities for all aspiring youths at all levels, and of course the most essential, a decent retirement for all seniors .

These essential needs are and should supersede any militaristic reasoning or wars , whether wars of aggression or what we term as defense, or bureaucratic luxuries and ideological expenses.

Many Americans, possibly half the general population if not more confuse willingly or not the notions of upholding and improving the various practices and institutions needed for almost everyone to enjoy modern decency and civility in a country like America, they confuse by being brain-washed with old adages that were for decades  ushered into the general psych as well as the minds of the most needy and simpler population, that capitalist social promises and programs are equivalent to communism or socialism, in their 20th century applications and models. Well !!  they're not .

American citizenry should be informed and asked to realize that social programs at all levels are not necessarily against family values or religious conservative beliefs . Americans should realize that they are systematically breaking down all these social promises and all previous hard gained meager social start-ups. by increasingly compromising our previous laws, and capturing our political system for the sake of pure demagoguery.

To use Aaron James words ;"We should really worry about whether our societies are already or might soon become asshole capitalist systems, set on a potentially irreversible path of degradation and decline". Many capitalist countries and societies, in Europe and the far east achieved high degrees of social collectivist culture, and a high cooperative social systems, and fairer distribution of their general wealth, and managed simultaneously to be happier and more satisfied conservatives and even religious peoples .

while here in the U.S. we are slowly and surely shifting our tipping point while standing by the  precipice, irreversible decline seems to be our newest accepted motto. Was it Marx who said "Capitalism is generally unstable, but it inevitably gives way to something better", Are we            systematically and deliberately reversing it and turning things to the worst, just for the hate of Marx or is it strictly the love of the filthy rich??

My as always, many thanks to all , all over the world, for your time and help spreading the blog .