Growing up Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher told us that capitalism went hand in hand with freedom and democracy.

Today we can see that capitalists can quite comfortably walk hand in hand with authoritarianism and fascism to maintain and consolidate their wealth and power.

@danwentzel my brother in Christ, you can't have capitalism without fascism, among many other isms. They legit invented race as a concept just to get people to support it because it was the only way to get them to act outside their own interest. The lie they sold you wasn't that capitalism brings democracy and freedom, it was that it was in your interest to accept being ruled over by money and the people that have it. And for the record, lots of people recognized the lie right away.