Do you think monopolies are OK like a conservative capitalist phenomenon? Anti trust laws are weak or strong or shouldn't be? Do you think it's conservative to pass laws preventing Medicare from negotiating drug prices? Laws that prevent a scientific study of a small industry just to keep it's astronomical sales? Subsidizing by billions oil industries? Tax cuts on corporations and megamillionaires and tax increases on Middle, upper middle and low upper classes? Marijuana (ie hemp) classification just because hemp can destroy the plastic industry (dow dupont)? Prescription drug laws that allow monopolies (a 1950s antibiotic for 100s and 1000s where anywhere else it's 10s of dollars and I have to thank my insurance bcz it "saved" me 100s but I'm already paying 10x original price as co-pay ) Are all these conservative ideals? Seriously? Where's fair play and social mobility and everyone has a chance?
Isn't that aristocracy and feudalism? Isn't this the destruction of the republic phase and rise of the empire phase with few oligarchs that gradually become aristocrats and kings and emperors? Is there anything such as conservatives or just welfare state /socialist for the corporations and the current social kings?
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I like it here in Thailand. No Big Pharm, doctor kickbacks, etc. so everything is efficient and inexpensive.
A few years ago I broke my wrist when I was living in Nakhon, Thailand. I went to the hospital, had an x-ray, a cast put on, the cast removed a few weeks later, another X-ray, all for $120 total.
birdingnut
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Sep 26, 2018
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Is there anything such as conservatives or just welfare state /socialist for the corporations and the current social kings?
I think you hit the nail on the head here. We are also going further into debt at an alarming rate that hardly no one talks about. All the debt since the 80's when Reagan tripled the debt in 8 years is directly caused by the theft of tax cuts for the richest 10%. We are being robbed here and half of the population is complicent.
Good thing we have trump the king of bankruptcy to save us. We're doomed!
Ktcyan
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Sep 26, 2018
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Exactly. I don't understand how middle class America is being and was in the past elections duped and conned by trump and in general most republican and even some establishment democrats speech. They do control local and national media but come-on. There was and is only one struggle in the world, the Middle class/masses against the oligarchy/aristocracy/upper. Unions, strikes, and mass movements are the middle class' only leverage. That was established by the American and French revolutions who ushered modern democracies that's like 101. What's happening to the world
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