The business of America is business.
Let me qualify that. The business of America is business, but that truism ends when collusion between commercial interests and legislators creates a plutocracy that undermines democracy.
America is and must ever be a nation of yeomen, not of oligarchs.
To support an ethos that can be exploited to justify oligarchy is to be anti-democratic, and a closet fascist. As conservatives, it is time we recognized the thin line between “pro-business” and “pro-plutocracy,” and how the latter is death to the very values we hold dear.
Well put, David. It’s exactly the point I’ve been trying to make.
I am a big fan of capitalism, but not the kind of capitalism that hands all of the opportunities to a chosen few, and expects the rest of us to become cogs in a machine. Our challenge as a nation is to find a balance between rewarding risk, innovation, and enterprise on the one hand and handing the wealthy the keys to the kingdom.