This Isn’t Free Market Capitalism. It’s Diet Fascism

I am a free market capitalist. I want less government. I want less taxes and regulations.

I want free people to be free to do as they wish. Broadly, I’d like economic freedom —predicated upon Thomas Jefferson’s description of religious freedom:

“It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

Again, broadly: If my neighbor’s economic activities neither pick my pocket nor break my leg? They can have at it — and the very best of luck to them.

Perhaps most importantly: I want equal protection before the law. I want both my corner store and Amazon to face the same laws, regulations and taxes.

Here is where the problems begin to arise.

The United States is not a free market capitalist economy. It has not been for many, many decades.

Even worse, we still operate under the delusion that it is. Every economic debate D.C. has — is had through this warped, false prism.

Wonder why socialism is currently skyrocketing in popularity in the U.S.?

What we call capitalism? Is actually Diet Fascism — with a heaping side of warmongering globalism.

And at least in socialism — when government wastes the money? It’s doing so in the U.S. Some of it may slosh around and actually help some Americans.

That doesn’t happen when we launch yet another idiotic war overseas.

Yes: I would describe what we have now long had in the U.S. — as Diet Fascism.

As people rush to clutch their pearls at the very notion? Let’s define our terms — and see where we actually are.

Classic Fascism — stripped of all the ideological tripe: