Capitalism on Trial -- Star Parker

townhall.com

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The point is, sadly, there is mistrust in America about the very thing that any conservative will tell you is the mother’s milk of our country – freedom and free enterprise.

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But there are polls that say otherwise, economic growth is still considered to be important.

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Republicans will have their work cut out to defend business and freedom against this onslaught, particularly in today’s environment of mistrust about these very things.

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But why play defense when you have most people on your side already?  Go on offense.

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Government has taken over major parts of American life and to regain our vitality, significant reforms must be made.

Exactly.  That is why you go on offense.

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America’s biggest and most powerful businesses are notoriously unreliable defenders of free markets. They have a deserved reputation for being unprincipled.

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Here is where she makes her most cogent point, and where Romney's defenders may fall flat on their faces

• American big businessmen are generally about expediency, not principles.
• He may be saying what sounds good now. But it’s the expedient thing to do.
• More expediency is not going to get us out of it. Only principled leadership that inspires trust in free enterprise and capitalism will.

As I've been saying all along, ideology makes us stupid.  People have attacked the church of capitalism, and now people are unthinking in their defense of the church.   You have a general who knows how to attack the enemy, but is anybody watching and paying attention?