We Have Met the Enemy And It Is Us

I speak conservative blasphemy for I have tired of Rush, Glen, and Sean.  I no longer listen to them. Yes I believe tax cuts will renew our economy and yes I believe in capitalism. But that's just the problem.  I don't think conservatives believe in capitalism anymore.  

Why do I make such an outrageous charge against conservatives?  Capitalism, well formed and well defined is a system of Meritocracy.  It is a system that rewards capability, competence, and service. The enemy of Capitalism has never been Socialism, rather it's true enemy is always, always Aristocracy.  Aristocracy is a system that rewards position and status because it can.  And whenever a state moves from a Meritocracy to an Aristocracy, in a Democracy it is inevitable that the people will use their own voting position to seize Aristocratic property just because they can.

What evidence do we have that we are now a deeply Aristocratic society?  Exhibit A is the Wall Street community awarding themselves with the fourth highest bonuses in their history.  This in the year when they have nearly destroyed not just the American economy but the World economy and for that a bonus is merited.  No, they awarded those bonuses to themselves just because they can. 

And what has been the Republican response?  What has been the Conservative response to the demise of Capitalism and the rise of Aristocracy? Tax cuts and talk of Capitalism.  I don't think that word Capitalism means what we think it means.  Unless the Republican party seizes Capitalism back from the Aristocratic sink hole it has fallen into, then we have become our own worst enemy.  And we will have been enabling accomplices to the new rise of Socialism.