Americans love capitalism, not democracy

It's capitalism Americans love more, not democracy. We spend almost all of our time, minus time for family, seeking more wealth by working harder, smarter, and longer to purchase the nicer car, house, plasma tv, Wii, DS (for the kids), clothes, gardens, etc. etc.

A tiny percentage of Americans actually subscribe to a political or economic journal, even though they remember seeing them on the shelves at the library while in college. Billions more is spent on fiction novels. Write to the representative in Congress? Hardly. Take part in demonstrations? Not likely. Write letters to the editor of the local newspaper? Once in awhile. Americans don't do their civic duty, partly because they are uniformed of the issues, but mainly because they are actively engaged in what they love more: capitalism. After all, capitalism pleases us.

Most Americans, however, do take part in a ritual every four years: the mainstream media's successful efforts to whip us into a frenzy about the election of the next decider-in-chief. Yet for 80 years, it hasn't made a whit of difference. 80 years of more government, more taxes, more regulation, more war, less liberty, and on, and on, and on.

Here's two great reads to begin the discussion on capitalism and democracy: How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo, and Democracy: The God That Failed by Hans Herman Hoppe.

My apologies to those who actually do get involved on a monthly basis by writing letters, reading journals, etc. It's not my intention to lump you in with the uniformed and the apothetic.