Capitalism was once the most prosperous of all economic ideologies.
In all likelihood, it was destined to be temporary, and perhaps superficial, due to its initial success being attributed to the end of the Second World War, in which Europe was in no position to become an economic adversary to North American industry, and the same applied to most, if not all, of Asia. In later trends, Germany is seen picking itself up and out of the dirt and grime of its recent past, and into the clothing of a sleeker, almost aristocratic future, in which the German car industry forced many new pressures upon the economies of the former Allied nations.
The same occurred in Japan, which now boasts one the fastest growing global economies in the world, in which manufacturers such as Suzuki and Mitsubishi have had enough success in their homeland to break independently into the North American market.
Capitalism, in the contemporary age, has crippled equality in the United States, and seems to have handed the entire country over to corporate superpowers on a silver-platter. Such has yet to occur to any serious degree in Canada, but our system, being so closely tied with that of the States, has been tainted, as if a massacre of innocent pedestrians occurred next to a lake, and the blood now seeps into the body of water, tainting it red, bit by bit, practically unbeknownst to the lakes creatures.
The numbing of any real social common sense by means of corporately controlled advertisement has destroyed not only the middle-class, but has reduced the lower class to a bunch of incredibly dependent pseudo-slaves who work towards largely unattainable goals put in front of them by the likes of McDonalds Corp, Wal-Mart, Citibank, and the late AIG. In Canada, small enclaves of a similar existence are present, but for those wishing to simply escape, possibilities are always present, at least for the moment.
The neoconservative movement in the United States also plays a huge role in keeping the current system in place; the arbitrary proof being that they allowed Habeas Corpus to be suspended, voted in favor of an illegal war half-way across the world, allowed corporations to be classified as human beings under American law, as well as suck them dry of financial assets, but suddenly pulled out all the stops when the government decided to implement a universal health care plan for the general public. Using the claim that it would destroy the economy with the amount of money it would require, they fail to see the irony in the fact that they instead decided to use all of the countries money to inflict incredible harm, as opposed to heal innocent wounds, and that for some reason it’s an atrocity to attempt to do so. They use outright lies in an attempt to uphold the current capitalist system, and will settle for no less, using arrogantly ignorant right-wing southerners, as well as northerners, as their base of support.
It’s irrefutable; all of North America needs to stand against their current governments, and fight for what they believe in. That’s not to say I’m supporting armed revolution, at least not quite yet, but defenses are in need of being tested; the people need to see how far they can get, united as one. If all else fails, the governments may need to collapse in upon themselves.
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