Dear Friends,
It seems to me, it has become obvious that the capitalist mindset in the West, has been effectively replaced with the socialist mindset. Not just the inroads soccer, the quintessential socialist game, has made in the US, but even the way corporations are being run today. The capitalist cares not for skin color, group, tribe, culture, or creed… the capitalist only cares whether you keep your word and if your check will clear at the bank. The socialist mindset however is a return to tribalism. What is paramount to a socialist, is not whether someone can pay their bills or is a good person, but to what group do they belong. For the socialist group identity is the most important consideration when judging any person. It has become so clear the tribal socialist mindset has taken over our entire culture, because so many in power… in journalism, the bureaucracy, law, science and even business, act in ways counter to the capitalist mindset and conforming to the socialist tribal mindset.
Take the corporate policies of large publicly traded firms such as Starbucks, and Target. They have instituted policies that have a naked political cause, that are in direct opposition to the shareholder and customer’s interests. Target implemented a policy allowing men in the women’s bathrooms in a ploy to pander to the LGBT community and their political allies. Of course wise parents of young children stopped shopping there in common sense protection of their children. Leading to a loss for the shareholders and a diminishing of options for customers. Starbucks CEO alienated everyone who supports traditional marriage, by telling a shareholder to take his money elsewhere, if that shareholder couldn’t support same sex marriage. Which naturally resulted in a boycott of Starbucks and losses for the shareholders. In both cases the losses were experienced by people other than those who made the decision.
Look at how the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) schemes with big bank executives at Goldman, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Citibank to embezzle money from shareholders. Every few months one of these or another too big to fail bank (TBTF) gets fined a billion dollars or so. Recently Deutsche Bank was fined an astronomical figure for manipulating the price of silver, no one went to jail and so the offender him or herself was not punished, instead the shareholders were fleeced out of that money. The executives still got huge bonuses and the SEC received another billion dollar payday. A win win for the collaborators and a loose loose for the shareholders and customers of the bank. Every TBTF bank has paid out a billion dollar settlement since the Financial Crisis of 2008.
Up until the election of Donald Trump the worst kept secret in journalism was it’s supposed “fairness.” Even when Walter Cronkite retired and came out as a closet one world Marxist, he maintained he provided the US with an unbiased perspective. The George Soros funded On the Media aired on National Public Radio, had one main theme, and that was, the media must retain it’s appearance of fairness regardless of it’s actual bias. Today they have tossed out all semblance of fairness and have gleefully become the propaganda wing of the Democrat party. From the non reporting of the Awan brothers scandal, to the dwelling on the long ago debunked conspiracy theory Russia Trump collusion, the media has taken off the mask and that can only mean they are desperate or confident.
The examples I could come up with would fill tombs but we have only a page, so I will finish by explaining the results of the capitalist mindset, versus the socialist one. Eggbert Slokum the sofa salesperson, only gets paid when he sells a sofa. Obviously then he only eats, pays his bills and drives a car if he sells sofas, and if he doesn’t sell a sofa once in awhile he and his family will go hungry. Being self interested Eggbert drives the sales as best he can. Do you think Eggbert will allow his family to go hungry because he doesn’t like the skin color of a customer? Is it likely he will poke in the eye, a potential purchaser of one of his sofas, at risk of loosing his car? If anyone believes there is always enough customers, that alienating one or two is an option, has never sold anything.
Sam Slick the socialist, on the other hand, is a bureaucrat. If someone comes to him he doesn’t like, all Sam need do is send the person of a politically disfavored group to the wrong window, a few times, then give him the wrong paperwork for the license. If the hateful person still doesn’t get the hint, deny her application without reason… let her fight for the license in the courts that are equally stacked against her. Sam will still get paid, he will face no negative consequences. and he will continue to move up the ladder of the bureaucracy, toting his bigotry with him. Moreover, why should Sam do anything for anyone without getting a bribe? Even members of politically favored groups should be able to supplement Sam’s pay, else they don’t need the license to do business after all, do they.
From this we can see that our community leaders have embraced the socialist mindset and thrown off the capitalist one. We see this by their actions, corporate policies, reporting and findings of law. The capitalist mindset lends itself to tolerance and inclusiveness while the socialist one lends itself to exclusiveness and intolerance, the results of which we see played out in our streets every day with ANTIFA riots, and the utter clamping down on free speech on our college campuses. Isn’t it ironic then, that much of the propaganda progressives pump out claims the inclusive to be bigots and haters, while it pretends the exclusive and intolerant are open minded. We see the purple nightshade fruits of the socialist mindset ripening before our very eyes, even as the beset American Chestnut tree, that nourished us for so long, is allowed to wither and die.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
