Welcome to America…
the capital of Orwellian doublethink.
To the above 3 party slogans from Orwell’s 1984, I would like to add a
fourth:
FREE ENTERPRISE IS MONOPOLY
and of course the opposite: monopoly is free enterprise.
Like most Americans that have been through the government indoctrination c
enters that we call public education you probably have some very inaccurate and untrue views as to what constitutes a monopoly.
For one thing, in a free market there is no such thing as a monopoly. You will always have choices in a free market. The only true monopolies that exist are those that are created by government when it interferes with the free market. Most will agree that the original US Postal Service, or your local water authority are government created monopolies.
The truth of the matter is that we are surrounded by dozens of government created monopolies that Americans almost without exception will inaccurately refer to as “free enterprise.” The opposite is also true. There are many examples of free enterprise that most people will identify as monopolies.
I will not go into detail but let me submit for you to ponder that the so called anti-trust laws were originally created as a vehicle to attack political opponents. Also to be able to create real monopolies and to then distract public opinion away from the real monopolies by attacking companies that are not.
In other words, the anti-trust laws are a protection racket that ensure the continuance of the real monopolies run by the oligarchs that pull the strings in our society while acting as a sledge hammer against companies which displease them.
As I said earlier there are literally dozens of businesses that Americans refer to as “free enterprise” which are actually monopolies. And the reason they are monopolies is that government has decreed them…
by law.
Tags: free enterprise, Orwellian
