Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "Can We Do Better Than Capitalism? (w/ Richard Wolff)" video.

  1. Hartmann, you would have to admit Wolff is absolutely correct; the system is now approximating that of the early 1900s. There is no effective monopoly legislation, the wealth and income gap has never been wider, all branches of government are owned by the plutocrats, and there are Hoovervilles in almost every city. As soon as anyone introduced another version of Roosevelt’s New Deal, the plutocrats would immediately go to work destroying what's left of the unions and other citizen groups, and buying influence and unwinding the regulations; just as they did when they created the American Liberty League (1934) straight after Roosevelt's New Deal (1933). The Wall Street plutocrats may even begin with a government coup as was attempted in 1933 and exposed by the twice Medal of Honor winner Smedley Butler and the McCormack–Dickstein Committee. Capitalism and corruption gives the plutocrats the resources to achieve their subversive political goals. If you were again to emulate Roosevelt and yet again "save" capitalism; in another century the people would again be having this same conservation. It's amazing how the period of this political corruption process just exceeds that of living memory. Now what did Einstein say about doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results – INSANITY. Sorry Hartmann, if you want to promote the interests of your corporate Democrat masters and push back against the Socialist surge by attempting to justify a more "humanitarian" capitalism, you picked the wrong person to interview in Professor Wolff.
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  2.  @lynnwood7205  : There is more than enough information around to understand who were the perpetrators of the coup. The list encompasses many of the plutocrats that were backing and promoting Hitler before the declaration of War (1941); and continued to covertly aid Hitler with technology and military hardware after the US had declared war on Germany. After the war, GM who was building military trucks for the Wehrmacht after 1941 even sued the United States for bombing one of their German factories during World War II; and in 1967 GM collected from the U.S. government $33 million in damages, out of US taxpayer dollars.
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