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Liberals Hate Capitalism
By Demosthenes | March 20, 2009
I recently ran across a post at The Absurd Report that I liked. It inspired the following comment from me that I decided to use as a post here.
Liberals would never admit they don’t like capitalism because saying so is patently absurd. I doubt they would even admit it to themselves. The bottom line: liberals really don’t like capitalism because “it’s not fair” (you can almost hear the whining in the background).
The fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives is this: conservatives believe in “equal opportunity” and liberals believe in “equal outcome.” It’s that simple. Capitalism provides for equal opportunity, but by its very nature, there will be winners and losers. For the most part, the winners are those that worked the hardest and risked the most. In the liberal mind, the “losers” should be entitled to what the “winners” have earned, even if they didn’t work as hard or risk as much.
Capitalism doesn’t automatically provide for those that don’t work hard or take risks. Liberals hate that. The irony of it all is that without capitalism, there be be virtually no philanthropy to provide help to those that truly do not have the “opportunity” to succeed.
It’s funny how liberals like to present themselves as the champions of “the common man.” This idea was popular prior to capitalism because the parts of the population that were “successful” got that way because they were born into nobility. They did not earn their wealth, they were born with it and “entitled” to it simply because of who they were.
Capitalism changed much of that. Yes, some kids are born into wealth, but at least in most cases it was because their parents earned that wealth. It had nothing to do with notions of “nobility.” Yet, the champions of the common man want the general population to hate the successful ones as if they got that way only because of their ancestry.
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