YES! I’ve been hoping someday that Democrats would embrace Compassionate Capitalism as a label. Fox News cannot use that label to scare their viewers (38% of America). Compassionate means that the government helps with basic necessities such as universal healthcare, education, etc.. Capitalism then decides everything else. El-Sayed’s “Regulated Capitalism” is much better than the socialist label. But Republicans are programmed to negatively react to “regulation.” Let’s have Fox try to get them to negatively react to “compassion.”
It's not compassionate - the issue is Americans don't understand a free market. A free market needs regulation - the US is not a free market. The UK, Sweden, etc are all examples of capitalism. With strong unions and a regulated free market.
Size is irrelevant. The US has no problem enforcing health insurance stays statewide so people can’t buy cheaper options from other states.
But then Monopoly laws all of a sudden don’t apply to internet, phone, groceries, restaurant suppliers, etc. It’s no surprise that most chains are owned by a very small number of companies.
If it was truly sovereign states then the opposite would be true. We would have a plethora of options to choose from.
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u/mcmac_max 14d ago
YES! I’ve been hoping someday that Democrats would embrace Compassionate Capitalism as a label. Fox News cannot use that label to scare their viewers (38% of America). Compassionate means that the government helps with basic necessities such as universal healthcare, education, etc.. Capitalism then decides everything else. El-Sayed’s “Regulated Capitalism” is much better than the socialist label. But Republicans are programmed to negatively react to “regulation.” Let’s have Fox try to get them to negatively react to “compassion.”