Economic Slavery.
Sure you have your free speech and can carry guns and can vote are able to earn a modest living or start a small business if you want to use your savings. Sure you have freedom but they can take your country's productivity and move it to China. They can put millions out of work and manipulate the economy for max profits and to hell with society. The same society that bails them out when they profitize us into another depression. This is what the right ultimately wants the U.S. to look like...
in the early to middle part of the 20th century...
"A coal miner in West Virginia generally lived in a company town. He woke up in a company bed situated in a company house. He washed himself with water drawn from a company well and ate breakfast prepared with food bought at the company store. Everything consumed or used by his family came from the company, purchased on credit. The credits used during the pay period only rarely failed to add up to less than the paycheck (paid not in United States currency, but company script.) In debt from his first day on the job, the entire system was geared towards keeping him and his family that way.
The miner had free speech, but what happened after he spoke could give him serious trouble. Many companies employed the firm Baldwin and Felts to provide mine guards. These guards dispensed retribution against “rabble-rousers” and “outside agitators” who came in talking about unions. One town even featured a Gatling gun mounted upon the front porch of a company official’s home. Companies figured that they could increase their control by importing miners from a variety of areas such as Russia, southern Italy, and Austria-Hungary. They came from countries with oppressive systems; also living in a strange country with different customs and languages increased their isolation. In fairness, company towns ran the spectrum from benevolently paternalistic societies to absolutely dictatorial rule. Increasingly the system turned its aims towards preventing unions from organizing the region."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/coal-mine.htm
I know this is true, I heard about it from my grandparents who were involved at the time - long before a computer let me look it up.
I'm really sick and tired of middle class right wingers who don't know the battles fought that enabled their families to work their way up from poverty. Or at least maintain their social status. These battles were fought against the same right wing ideologies that these guys back today.
Asshat, the right does not believe in society. Your description is accurate and has been proven every time there has been unregulated/savage/disaster capitalism.
