How right-wing Republicans became America's unlikeliest anti-capitalists

[Soph0571]

Not that Trump himself has much of substance to contribute to the debate. But he does have a knack for identifying enemies, and his attacks on the Chinese government and Big Tech have prompted new thinking. As John Burtka of The American Conservative points out, the Republicans haven’t had a decent enemy since the end of the Cold War. But they are warming to Trump’s trade war with China (maybe free trade isn’t all it was cracked up to be?), and his broadsides against Amazon and Google. (Perhaps these giant corporations should be broken up, or at least reined in?)

It’s just possible, then, that the American right is about to shake off its past and become a populist coalition against plutocracy, monopoly and exploitation. On the other hand, it can be hard to persuade a conservative movement to abandon free-market dogma.

[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2019/09/how-right-wing-republicans-became-america-s-unlikeliest-anti-capitalists|]

Interesting take - but truly their lips are moving - and you can never trust a word they say...

[rampartc]

1. they love the chinese capitalist model

of totalitarian mercantilism.

the foxcon plant in Wisconsin is installing suicide nets.

[Newest Reality]

2. I can't agree with that at all...

They may posture themselves, but in my opinion, the Right-Wing is the most entrenched tool of the Oligarchy and the Military Industrial Complex that we have.

They even serve to deflect the fact that we are really having a crisis based on Oligarchy vs. democracy and the right vs. left issues tend to actually be less important wedges that get blown well out of proportion in that case and deflect the fact that inequity alone betrays the needs of the people and is economically destroying vast numbers of people, which then contributes to many other deleterious and long-term results, (poverty, crime, drug use, health issues, family breakups, homelessness, etc.) that then get blamed on the victims as a matter of "poor morals" and other ways of deflecting the results and their real causes.

So far the masks that the right wears are designed to put a nice, decent, all-American face on that and if we look at the on-the-ground results in the Red States alone, we can see just how that works. They seem to rely strongly on people who will simply take their word for things as some echo of a time when a person and their word were synonymous and deals were settled with a handshake and a nod.

It is because of that that any shifts in the views of some more intellectual members of their cabal or the prattle of talking heads are not really an indicator of any kind of radical shift like that, but could be interpreted as a way to polish the mask by way of making allusions to such things. Since compassion and concern for the commons have not been a predominating issue for the Right, (at least for many decades) then there is no reason to even consider the possibility raised by that speculative article. There is no divorce pending between the right and their real constituents and contributors.

More likely, the right will become more and more obsolete due to the fact of shifting demographics in the next few decades. They have also less sway with millennial as we know. It would take a real paradigm shift for the right to make that change and though they are no longer true conservatives, that preservation mindset, in this case, will, I think, prevail until the very end and they will not be flexible or adapt. That's why we see the desperate and mad grabs for power going on. They know this.