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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Systems of belief
Captian Capitalism calls George Galloway the union of the world's two greatest evils. This opinion is based on Galloway's interview with Al Jazeera which LGF calls an incitement to a killing frenzy:What always surprises me, though, is the confidence of assertions like this: "I had always suspected that the world's two greatest evils (Islamic terrorism/fascism and communism) would join forces, despite historical differences, to form a united assault against the world's greatest good (capitalism)."
Conservatives have done a remarkable job of coming up with these belief systems. Capitalism is the world's greatest good. In principle, no person should pay more than 1/3 of their income in taxes. Lynchings aren't so bad.
If you ask a progressive to define the world's greatest good and you're as likely to get 1,000 answers as you are to get any answer at all. Constitutional governance? Democracy? The scientific method? Brett Favre?
I'm not going to pretend to know the answer, though I'm leaning toward constitutional governance. Constitutional governance gives power to people. Capitalism only works when the people in the system have the power to enforce sensible limits on corporate abuse.
