Conservatives Promote Anarchy

Conservatives Promote Anarchy

Because Obama attempted to pass a public health insurance option, conservatives labeled him socialist. If socializing the cost of a public good is socialism, then logically we are all socialists. It also follows that government by its very nature is socialistic. In order to have government or to provide any government service requires levying taxes and then using that revenue to socialize the cost of some public good, or in the case of corporate socialism, elite private interests of the true American rulers.

According to conservative logic, military security, fire departments, police departments, transportation departments, public schools, public healthcare, and much more are socialism. All of these public goods are the result of our society agreeing to socialize the costs.

Interestingly, when costs for public goods are socialized, it can be done far more cost efficiently than when these goods are privatized for Big Business interests. In the case of two of our largest socialized costs, healthcare and military security, a great deal of the massive cost is due to the fact that we allow cost-inefficient Big Businesses to extort massive profits off the backs of American citizens.

It is estimated that true public healthcare could actually reduce costs $400 billion if we eliminated pointless insurance corporations. The same could be said for our excessive $1 trillion military budget. We could nationalize weapons production, ending the greed incentive for weapons manufacturers to bribe politicians into starting wars for profit. This would also end the profit motive for exporting billions of dollars in bombs and war machines to dictatorships, which makes the world insanely more dangerous for our children.

Conservatives oppose taxes and socializing costs, and since these are the basic underpinnings of reasonable government, they are anarchists.

On another hand, I do oppose corporate socialism. The best example of this is when corrupt, deregulated Wall Street banking corporations gutted our economy and were rewarded with trillions of dollars in bailouts by privately owned congressmen and the Federal Reserve oligarchy.

Other myths need to be shattered and displaced with reality too. We are social creatures that rely on countless other humans for our psychology, worldview and material existence. Governments also inherently affect markets and trade, and what is not done by government, especially in terms of natural resource "freedom", is equally a form of economic design as any regulation. Hence, rugged individualism, free market capitalism, and free trade are all dirty, rotten myths designed to perpetuate massive wealth-power inequality for generations of economic elite rulers.

As for the anti-government sentiment of conservatives, I find common ground. I am very displeased with our corrupt corporate capitalist elite rulers whom start wars for profit, bailout corrupt banks and refuse to provide public healthcare, among countless other atrocities. Right now we have bad government, but I believe in good government, especially since We are supposed to be the government in a democracy.

This is all common sense. When can the grownups take charge to save civilization? I am patiently waiting.