I finally got around to watching Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, and you've already formed your opinion about what you're about to read. Every fiscal Conservative should love his argument, but it's dismissed as quickly as sentence one.
As his Vizzini says: The guy who makes the best ice cream gets the customers, and the guy who doesn't fades away. There you go. We all want the best ice cream.
What Moore argues is that we let the crappy-ice-cream-making-guy cheat and serve us pus. People let themselves be swayed and spoken for by media and commercials rather than asking where the milk came from.
When people can work together in a Democracy with Capitalism, they can win. Divided and unquestioning they're at the mercy of the few in control -- for better or worse.
On his argument that Capitalism is to blame for corporations profiting on the death of their Peasants? Is it the gun that kills the people, or the people that kill the people? Obviously it is people who kill, but I don't own a gun.
But you might say that Moore has a thing against guns. It doesn't matter: his whole point is to get people to wake up and pay attention, already.
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