“Capitalism can take the form of a socially-conscious free market economy that creates opportunity for all. Our understanding of gender can stretch to appreciate the full spectrum of human self-expression. Those who accuse reformers of wanting to abolish capitalism and gender are, for the most part, merely afraid that the positive evolution of these notions is not only unavoidable but may leave them and their ways behind.”
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This woman is an idiot in my book. Wish she’d stop speaking for all americans. Speak for yourself!
Ms. Kohn saw you on Cavuto and wasn’t impressed with your arguments. You simply spit out the same DNC rhetoric. You made the statement that the Tea Party was disorganized and alike the Occupy Wall St. protestors. You couldn’t be farther from the truth. The Tea Party people were organized, true there are several different organizations however they have a common goal…cut spending. The OWS people besides the socialist, communist, and nazi organizations are totally off the wall. For you to say different is of course your fantasies that the left is coherent and cognitive. Most of these unaffiliated kids are simply there for the rave. Of course the organized people who are affiliated with the above-mentioned organizations including the unions are trying to crystalize these diverse thinking people into some cohesive goal but it’s not working.
Even the paid protestors (union supported) can’t make much of their thoughts. Eventually they will go back to their parents and sponge off of them until they are forced to look for work or be thrown out. You can’t say the Tea Party participants are populated with a majority of unemployed self-entitled misfits. The Tea Party is made up of taxpayers who are embittered by this administration’s spending spree. Obviously your biased opinion is coloring your honesty.
Sally you are hopeless Communist. I have heard your remarks on Fox and other places and I resent greatly your persistent mantra of let’s “Tax Others” to give to the undeserving. Also, I resent your recent remarks that the Occupy Wall Street crowd resemble the Tea Party crowd. They do not. That is a gratuitous progressives forgiveness for the disgusting collections of ne’er do wells camped out across the country. Factually people who are able to squat on public property for over a week with nothing better to do certainly are not comparable in any way to the Tea Party members. Your target for funding the ne’er do wells is not pointed at the rich only. Your goal is to harness up all productive workers and give their hard earned efforts to people who do nothing but sit on the side lines. Socialism and communism is great until you run out of other peoples money. I am an Ayn Rand conservative; and, your kind are natural enemies of those who have prepared themselves for life. I would love to have a survey of the educational background and majors in college (if they went) experiences. I would bet the mass there are majors in Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, and undetermined!
None of these comments addressed the article’s argument about gender, so I am tempted to dismiss them as hired opinions from conservative think tanks. Which are easy to ignore. Capitalism is a real problem in that it debases social life to consumerism and commodity forms and does not allow those who do not have their needs met from a young age to truly develop their capacities, while it proclaims that ‘anyone’ can do it ‘with a little hard work.’ As if the deck weren’t stacked from day one and as if everyone WANTED to become rich off the misery of others. Every area of life depends on money now, buy money is just a symbol: you can’t eat money, and we’ve allowed wants to be interchangeable with actual needs, e.g., corporations profiting off keeping desperately needed anti-retroviral drugs from those who can’t afford them. We tried reforming capitalism in the 1930′s and 40′s, but the cycles of boom and bust are unavoidable. Overproduction, overaccumulation, unemployment and underemployment always reoccur. Why expect anything otherwise from a system that depends on depriving people of their basic needs and originated in violence, i.e., the expropriation of land and the exclusive possession of technology which might otherwise serve the common interest? Being anti-capitalist is difficult in our VERY biased climate, where rational debate does not occur (who owns the media and information?), but it can exist with gender equality. Cheers.