Defined in 1 word
Capitalism: consent
The reason capitalism works is because it’s voluntary.
I decide with my dollars where they will work most efficiently for my life and the seller to whom I turn over those dollars offers a product or service I want – one exchange for the other. The more choices I have of similar products or services, the less the price since the sellers are competing for my dollars.
What happens when our government attempts to control this process by limiting the number of sellers or controlling the price they can sell their products or services? In a word: manipulation.
Can anyone say – Obama?
Whenever anyone is limiting your choices they are manipulating by controlling.
The question: why?
The question reveals the inherent nature of the government’s agenda and that’s all that is needed.
The government is limiting your freedom and freedom of choice. This is antithetical to our founding and why we are leaders in the world.
We should demand of those who seek office to define for the crowds what capitalism is, this will reveal two things and two things only:
1) Either you don’t inherently understand one of the greatest bearers of freedom and how Americans can prosper, eliminate poverty and elevate our way of life
2) Or you purposefully and willfully ignore it for personal agenda by which you seek to control & manipulate the people toward creating poverty toward dominance
Neither of these scenarios bodes well for the politician.
When you create poverty you are able to control others because they are no longer self-reliant or self-governing, they are dependent upon government for everything. Dependence is dominance.
Apply this idea to every social issue that affects our nation and you quickly see how government is seeking dictatorship rather than freedom. Control is the implicit message: "you're too stupid to be trusted with this decision."
ICONIC FREEDOM speaks of Consent as one of the cornerstones of development of personal responsibility. Without consent we force others into subjugation, manipulation and control. Our society can easily and quite quickly move to personal responsibility if government were out of the way.
The premise is simple:
Accountability – own each and every choice you make in this life
Responsibility – have the ability to respond to each and every choice you make in this life
Consent – don’t make a choice that is at the cost of another human being who did not consent (voluntary contract)