If most countries are capitalist, why is the US singled out and bashed?

[Twodogs0525]

In fact, 95% of the countries you admire, adore and love, are capitalist! So, why is the US constantly bashed for being "capitalist?"

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@msc545 since you deleted my last comment.

[Chazmatazz269]

Because the US has the least regulation on what people can do in the name of profit. Big business and wealthy citizens control our government entirely because we have almost no restrictions whatsoever. This is why politicians can get elected to office and become multimillionaires virtually overnight.
This is why lobbying wasn’t outlawed and why the majority of bills are actually written by lobbyists for special interest groups. Our “legislators” don’t actually legislate anything anymore. They just for bills that were written for them by their wealthy benefactors.
It’s so corrupt that you can hardly call it capitalism with a straight face. There is no “free market”. The US functions entirely on supply side economics now. Demand hasn’t been a meaningful factor in decades.

[Twodogs0525]

Are you saying you want the government to control your money?

[Chazmatazz269]

Is English a second language for you?
What about my words was impossible for you to understand? Are you being deliberately obtuse or are you actually dumb?

[Twodogs0525]

Yes, I am Mexican, so, do you want the government to regulate how it's citizens control their money? It's a simple question.

[Chazmatazz269]

If that’s what i wanted, then i would have written that. Plug my words into an interpreter app if you like. Starting your response with “Are you saying…” isn’t a “simple question”. You’re trying to twist my words into something that you can argue.
Do you think that the entire country should be run exclusively by the wealthiest people and organizations exclusively for the wealthiest people and organizations?
That’s what we have now. It’s called oligarchy. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the lame brained voters support it because they actually believe the poorest and least powerful people have some magical ability to oppress them.

[Twodogs0525]

That's a question of what form of government that should exist, not a question for what type of economic system. We have elections every two years that can throw people out of office, that go against your economic beliefs. Government gridlock isn't always a bad thing!

[msc545]

I didn't realize I deleted any of your comments. In any event, to answer the current question, the US is singled out and bashed for multiple reasons, though two might be that the US is the most vociferous and capitalist of all countries, and the US practices capitalism without any protections or controls whatsoever. Citing the fact that rules exist doesn't mean the rules are enforced, and citing the fact that laws exist, particularly anti-trust laws, does not mean they are enforced. In fact, most of these are not enforced at all. The result has been that capitalism in the US has predictably transferred money at an unreasonable rate to a few individuals who now control most of the economy.

[msc545]

Thanks for MHO

[lilBigPotato]

Because the US puts capitalism over everything while many other countries have a more healthy relationship with it. Just compare for example the worker rights of the US vs your average European country. It looks to me almost like modern slavery.

[FrodoSkywalker007]

@lilBigPotato Americans do certainly work far harder than your average western European.

[lilBigPotato]

@FrodoSkywalker007 maybe, but for the wrong reasons.

[Twodogs0525]

@FrodoSkywalker007 That's also why the EU is failing. In order to be a prosperous nation, you have to be productive.

[FrodoSkywalker007]

@lilBigPotato I don't deny that. Been screwed myself from the system. It's a great country if you are on top of things. Get behind and it's a nightmare.

[FrodoSkywalker007]

@Twodogs0525 that I also agree with. They are making a lot of terrible decisions

[lilBigPotato]

@Twodogs0525 don't you worry, we are doing perfectly fine. The EU might not be perfect and have it's flaws, but no one is.

If you don't agree with my example of worker rights, feel free to explain why.

[Twodogs0525]

@lilBigPotato I'm familiar with you on this site and like you. We just disagree. You say capitalism is failing in the US, because we lack worker's rights? I say the EU economy is failing because of your policies of low production, because of worker's rights.

[RachyRach]

Because unlike other countries the media coverage in the US is constant. And it's such a divided country politically that a lot of those people in the media may not like the government

[NaultD]

Time and place for everything. At the same time usa is a mixed economy.

You don't have to bribe firefighters to save your family.

At the same time if you have a life threatening head injury you need to know and able to express every in and out of your health insurance coverage? That's not capitalism that's extortion like taxation without representation.

[Kaneki05]

Because US has less social protections than most other wealthy countries if others can do so can US but it actively pretends these things are impossible while spending billions on other things that realistically don't help every day citizens at all.

[NathanDavis]

because that's one of the benefits of capitalism... people can absolutely hate it while at the same time enjoy the benefits and privileges of it, themselves... lol

[FrodoSkywalker007]

Double standards.
The same reasons leftists bash Israel, but completely ignore Hamas.
It's ironic they bash the most liberal nation in the region lol

[FrodoSkywalker007]

@msc545 blocked me. Ignore him. Many do that nonsense here. Very few leftists keep debating.

[jahaims]

Because their is trillions of dollars worth of blatant corruption.