Social-Democratic parties always drift to the right. Third-Way politics of Clinton and Blair have pulled Britain and the U.S. to the right and Obama was no different. Thatcher said Blair was her greatest achievement, with a smile.
But they haven't shifted right. They've shifted further left, and so have the Republicans.
Supporting big business is NOT shifting right, especially not in the way Democrats are doing it.
In case you haven't noticed, there aren't a whole lot of competitors like there used to be. Competitors are progressively being destroyed because they can't afford to keep going.
You know, it used to be pretty easy to find something you want to sell, and then just open a business to do so. Go, find something you enjoy and put all of your effort into starting a business in that. Yeah, you'll quickly see that the hurdles are very great, and not just supply and demand. Being able to simply follow all of the legal rules alone is prohibitively expensive. That's because our Socialism has grown to such proportions.
You know, you could be an ISP. Just go get a loan or save up, and buy internet IP addresses ranges that you can use to assign to your customers. You'll find that the potential profit has greatly diminished due to Net Neutrality, and that's not even talking about the regulations that help to keep ISP's as a monopoly in their area.
That doesn't happen because government is shifting right wing. Shifting right wing in the U.S. means to make things easier for businesses to flourish, means to progress back towards a more free economy that makes it easier for you to decide to and to start a business of your own, not more difficult so that only the biggest and richest of them survive.
You're getting crony Capitalism, which is another term for Socialism, confused with Capitalism.
You see, what many of you seem to be missing here is the fundamental nature of Socialism.
Do you think businesses go away under Socialism? Did you think Stalin abolished profit? Do you think China and North Korea have destroyed big business? No, their economies would crash without suppliers for people to purchase what they need. They simply changed the dynamic of big business in that one or two businesses needed to oversee their entire sector of the economy. I don't know what name they call it, but it's a practice of the rich all working together to be the upper class, the ruling class, collectively controlling all sectors of the economy at the expense of the economically equal lower class.
They didn't call them monopolies, but that was their function, to be the monopoly that the government could pull the strings of in order to control the economy.
Socialism cannot control the economy without some form of monopoly in every sector of the economy. Either the monopoly is held by government directly, by a close network of rich elite allies. Either way Socialism requires monopolies to function.
And that's exactly what Democrats are working towards. If you haven't noticed, all of Democrat economic policies are geared towards specific government-controlling goals. One of their main avenues is to tax and fee and make it as impossible as we allow them too for new competitors to form and rise up to challenge their monopolistic allies.
You see it's like this. If you're one of them, like Microsoft or any number of virtual monopolies progressively siding left these days, if you are the main provider in a sector of the economy, if you're corrupt, then you want taxes, regulations, fee because nothing that government can do will bring you more profit than being the sole or one of a few sole providers of a good or service.
Think about it, from debt to tech, the most monopolistic of companies are going towards the left and Democrats. I would do the same if I were corrupt and greedy. I would do everything in my power to get on the side of the Democrats because they're strangle and destroy every single one of my competitors out of business. I would ask for my taxes to be raised, donate to every grotesque liberal cause like abortion, make everyone think I'm this enlightened company when in reality, I'm just doing my part to strangle out my competitors so that I'm the only one of a few left. It wouldn't matter how much Democrats raised my taxes and fee'd me, it would never have the detrimental impact that it will have on my less wealthy competitors who will inevitably crash and burn as I fill the gap they leave behind. It will never be enough to even remotely take away all of the extra profits I will make by being only one of few providers.
