In the United States, the most capitalist country in the world, a quarter of adults have no health insurance, income inequality is skyrocketing, the middle class is collapsing, and democracy has imploded into a single pro-war, pro-globalization party representing only the wealthiest 1%.
2007-03-07 13:31:26 · 19 answers · asked by Longhaired Freaky Person 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It's as close to Utopia as you'll ever get.
You'll have to die and meet St Peter for a better Utopia (or the ultimate one)
2007-03-07 13:35:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Conservatives believe based on the nature of man, a utopia is unattainable.
But to deal with your points...
The US is not the most capitalist country in the world. The US is a step away from a social democracy. National health care, Government run schools and a 35% tax rate is all that is needed.
All US citizens have access to health care in the US. Free if necessary. Health insurance is just a payment option.
The bar for the middle class has changed. To get into the middle class you are judged by the size of your portfolio, how big your TV is, the size of your SUV's rims, and how many times you have been to Europe on vacation. In the old days the middle class used to just do without.
And, pro-war, pro-globalization would mean the US has had its democracy imploded in December 1917 when it declared war on Austria-Hungary in hopes that the aggressive empire would become a democracy. Maybe declaring war on a country allied with the country you are at war with is not necessarily pro-globalization but an isolated event?
Finally, even Bill Gates gets only one count per vote. The 2 poorest US citizens can out vote Bill Gates. Maybe the conservatives represent more than the just 1%?
2007-03-07 14:30:33 · answer #2 · answered by Mark M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because capitalism at it's core is all about greed and self interest over the interest of others.
It a competition model. So, if I can buy a politician at the detriment of my competitors, that's a good thing in capitalism.
If I own a company and can dump expensive waste products without anyone noticing, destroying the environment and hurting everyone else, that's also a good thing for my personal bottom line.
What is really annoying about all laissez-faire capitalist nuts out there, is they love to claim that the "government" is this horrible entity that actually causes the problems. By regulating commerce they claim it causes the conflicts.
Gee... guess you didn't notice though that people dumping waste and destroying the environment came BEFORE any regulations.
There would be no need for regulations if we didn't have greedy bastards that only think about themselves. That's why capitalism will always cause misery.
2007-03-10 17:13:19 · answer #3 · answered by accorn34 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think human society is evolving generally. It is easy to lose sight of this but it is improving in the larger sense. Don't look at it in the finite sense, as in how come so and so's ideals were not realized. Progress is a continuous function and is does go back and forth sometimes. Think about Rome in antiquity followed by the dark ages.
You need to use a metric of some kind and I think a good one is discretionary time. There was quite a battle to get a sabbath day and now many parts of the world have 8hr days and 5 day weeks.
2007-03-07 13:38:43 · answer #4 · answered by Ron H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the everyday American conservative has no vision to envision!!! They are too busy coping with the constant 24/7 brainwashing as applied by the few for the many!!! As a matter of fact, it was Jesus Christ who said "Makarioi oi ptoxoi to pnevmati," Simply put, from biblical Greek to English, "Blessed be the poor in the head."
NDS
2007-03-07 13:54:59 · answer #5 · answered by Nikolas S 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
US Conservatives envision a "eutopia" where everyone pursues their own goals and plans, with the least government control and interference possible.
I believe Americans are smart enough and motivated enough to stay ahead. Meanwhile, stopping the pillage and counterfeiting of nations like North Korea might help. Making China and India enforce their labor laws, before getting into any more treaties might help.
But the bottom line is that we do not expect the government to bail us out.
2007-03-07 13:40:57 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
well... actually... the problem was... they did it during the industrial revolution... and it worked all too well
no laws for businesses... no monopoly laws, no unions... everything as the Republicans wanted... one problem... 70 percent of the populations around the world were working for peanuts living in poverty and 1 percent controlled the majority of the wealth...
that's the ingredients for a revolution... why do you think Marx thought up communism in the first place... kind of funny that capitalism fathered communism...
2007-03-07 13:36:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You just posted this to spite an anti-communist, which proves you're everything uptight conservatives said about hippies when they were starting to make the scene.
John Lennon may've been a pacifist hippie, but at least he was an anti-communist.
2007-03-07 13:36:38 · answer #8 · answered by ddey65 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because conservatives are realist enough to know that utopia is nothing but a fantasy.
But it's better than anything anyone else has...
2007-03-07 13:37:06 · answer #9 · answered by Gary W 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because social stratification by wealth as the main driver is not a fundamentally sustainable social policy.
2007-03-07 13:36:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋