Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin called America a ‘nation based on grifts’ and claimed that Trump is ‘the ultimate example of a shitty capitalist’ while demanding Americans break away from the free market. Most people know and understand that US capitalism didn’t just rescue Americans from poverty but pulled other nations out of ruins.
I think we should certainly tax billionaires like Besos rather than put the entire financial burden on the working class but the idea that we should just kill off capitalism and replace it with a socialist society isn’t maddening, it would suffocate all future growth. Essentially killing the ‘American dream’.
“They [Republicans] don’t want government to work. Isn’t that the essence of it? When government is helping people, it undermines their reason for being as a party,” Obeidallah opined.
Pocan responded, “This is the fundamental core of what they believe in, right, that somehow the market should be what drives things, not democrative [sic] decision-making.”
“Ultimately, we’re watching the wealthy get way too wealthy. Corporations aren’t paying any of their fair share, I was so glad to see what we did in the Inflation Reduction Act by having a minium corporate tax, but I guarantee within the next two years they’ll find a massive loophole and once again we’ll be fighting the same fight. Until we decide that actually people through a democracy make the decisions rather than somehow the free market is the altar that we’re worshiping on that’s going to be the problem that we’re going to face,” Pocan continued.
“Trump is like the ultimate example of a shitty capitalist,” Pocan went on. “He’s the example of a guy who’s a constant grifter, even as president the guy’s a grifter.”
“You can’t have a nation based on grift and have it sustainable,” he said.
Pocan’s comments do not represent the first time a prominent Democrat has criticized capitalism. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Mich., has previously called for the destruction of America’s political and economic systems, which she describes as oppressive.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., another member of the “Squad”, also has been critical of America’s capitalist system. She recently attempted to spark a bank run against J.P. Morgan Chase after its CEO refused to abide by her extremist climate demands.
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Capitalism may not be perfect. The US has so much work to do to tune the machine that is the free market. Tossing lawmakers like Pelosi out of the marketplace while in office is a good place to start. No one should be in a position to profit from the laws they write, that just breeds corruption but is that the fault of the market place or the lawmakers who refuse to write comprehensive laws that limit their own profits?
Researching Pocan I can say this, he’s no Pelosi. He’s not even in the market place but he’s placing the blame on the very thing that pulled this country out of ruin when he needs to start pointing fingers at his political buddies who are abusing the system and allowing their wealthy pals to do the same.
That’s my take. What’s yours?