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EPISODE · Feb 23, 2020 · 36 MIN

What is Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism ... are they bedfellows in today's American Enterprise

from The American Enterprise Manifesto: My America's Vision of Peace and Nonviolence for Humanism · host Jerry Rhoads

What Is Capitalism? The chicken or the Egg . . . The best way I’ve found to justify capitalism is to compare it to other forms of socioeconomic and political systems. To do this, let’s look at how the fruits of a chicken’s labor are produced and disbursed under Nazism, Fascism, Socialism, Communism, and finally Capitalism.  Nazism (white supremacy): This is where the pure race commandeers the hen before the eggs are hatched and raises the offspring as a perfect line. Only the bad chickens are sent to the chambers and the good eggs are given to the people (pure race). Fascism: This is where the government captures the eggs as they’re laid, eats the yolk, and gives the shells to the people. Socialism: This is where the people are given the hens. The eggs are laid according to the letter of the law and given to the people for one-half their wages in the form of Social Security taxes. The bad eggs are given back to the producers for recycling in accordance with environmental protection laws. Communism: This is where the hens are owned by the government. The eggs are commandeered by the government for equal distribution to all. Only the average eggs are given to the people. The best eggs go to the politburo. The good eggs go to the Olympic team. If the annual quotas for production aren’t met, the people are fed to the chickens.  Capitalism: This is where the people own the chickens. They buy the feed and risk their capital. The eggs are sold and the profits, if any, are taxed. The chickens are overworked and underpaid, but protected by unions. The unions guarantee collective bargaining, pensions, and equal opportunity for each and every chicken. The good eggs end up in the omelets served to the lawmakers, the bad eggs are chastised by Rush Limbaugh called Marxists.  America is in the Red Zone ... moving to incremental institutionalization (socialism) of our enterprises using laws and regulations, Effectively, America has been pursuing the Great Society or socialism for eighty years using the two-party system to collectively take away the freedoms that enable free market enterprise. This is the war on capitalism waged by the two-party system. Therefore, why wouldn't America now want a total revamp of the two-party system? Are they more alike than the dislike in taking away personal freedoms by their couriers? Such as Marx, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao or Trump. Might the differences all be embodied in the term enterprise ... or more literally the Great American Enterprise. In the past candidates merely influence the outcome between the two-party candidates and do not change the vetting process. But now based on the outcome of the 2020 elections it may become evident that America the Free may be headed in the wrong direction.  Socialism, for the sake of campaigning, is not a practical solution for bringing Americans together… it’s driving us further apart. If not, what is? Keeping it simple and doable consider the fact we do have capitalism and socialism working together in an enterprise (business or foundation) ... it takes capital (money) to start an enterprise and sustain it and social interaction of people to run it and maintain its survival against market competition. So why wouldn't a third party that embodies both be needed to prevent the right and left extremes from taking over and bankrupting the Great American enterprise. All it takes to split the log jam of the Red versus the Blue is for the American Enterprise Party to garner 20 seats in the House and 8 in the Senate to be the swing vote for driving the Great American Enterprise forward to better results ... Less laws, less taxes, less debt, less imbalance in trade, better foreign relations, accountable bottom line and GNP growth for all. More to come on how this can be accomplished without having a revolution to repair the damage.   

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