Adam Kokesh: Capitalism = Freedom

What's wrong with socialism? Capitalism creates poverty which is the antithesis of freedom and isn't freedom what we're all about here? There's nothing in the constitution about capitalism. What's wrong with socialism? What's wrong with putting everyone's basic needs ahead of some rich guy's yacht? Why is it alright that the top 1% of Americans owns 23% of the wealth? Why is that fine but if I argue that everyone is entitled to food, I'm suddenly an "extremist"? What is wrong with socialism? What makes for-profit health care and for-profit banking so superior to profit-motive-free health care and banking administered by the People for the People? Why should universally-needed goods and services be controlled by corporations whose sole concern is making money? Why is it fine that CEOs profit off of my ill health? Why? Can someone answer these questions intelligently without trying to insult me?

Out standing words Adam Kokesh, thou you made it a bit too conspiracy theory sounding by speaking of "the establishment' for most conservative stumic. Instead i would simply state the facts about what has happened as if they have always been known and true about the nature of theses system as they were founded, perhaps on good intentions.

Conservatives understand how leftist tend to screw up really bad and end up hurting the people they intended to help. Your absolutely right that capitalism is really all about individual freedom, where as big government, socialism, or otherwise collectivism is really just economic servitude.
In so much that such collectivism also in so much that it also promises security, it cost us in our liberty. That relationship trade-off and nature MUST be understood by all people if they are to make an intelligent choice!

This fact of Capitalism being quite literally directly all about our individual freedom must be stated over and over again, for our proper understanding of its nature is absolutely central to our future life, liberty, and happiness.

Let the people speak and understand plainly about the plain and simple truth of theses facts, let them see with their eyes and understand with their own minds, the inherit and unavoidable relationship between their freedom to choose for themselves and that of the economic system associated with such freedom known as Capitalism.

Let us be frank in that this IS A PERSONAL matter for that freedom to choose ourselves Is as personal as it gets.

That is the context talk of the Federal reserve as a naive attempt at making investments. Tell the people of the true consequences of its methods (the inflationary lending) and let them know that every "investment" this government agency makes either in government or in the private sector, it makes with their money.

Tt is not their elected representatives deciding how to tax and spend their money its a bunch of unelected bored members. that is the simple and easily variable truth.
Tell them it was made this way in the United States in 1913 as a liberalization of the Federal bank which itself also did theses things only at a far less "liberal" and more controlled rate.

Tell them the truth and let them judge for themselves the merits of how their money has been taken from them and used as investments in other enterprise. Tell them how the Federal reserve has clearly failed in its founding as it has produced nothing but inflation, along with a boom bust cycle. it's loads have not been replayed but rather forgiven, and thus the people's money was for the last 96 years been simply spent not mearly "borrowed" from them with out their consent.

Tell them this is wrong in the exact same way counterfeiting is wrong.

Capitalism can be, and many times has been, corrupted to such a degree as to render any blanket opinion on "capitalism" full of holes.

I have no problem with regulating trade, but would prefer the feds regulate within their authority and leave the states to regulate within theirs.