Two, now four, corruptions of free society.

The fundamental truth of capitalism is that you get what you want by providing what someone else wants, and he gets what he wants by providing what you want.

It's a system built on serving the needs of others.

But yes, there are some people who believe that they are sufficiently privileged that others should supply them with what the want, without the burden of providing anything of value in exchange. And there are a few who are so enamoured of their own intellect that they are convinced that they are better suited to determine what we need than we are.

Most of them are children. Some are adults who never grew up.

Neither have arguments that are worth listening to.

Jeff Dege commenting on Bjorn Staerk's interesting "Pro-democracy, anti-politician" provided the above excellent insights.

According to his (correct) view, in a democratic capitalist system the system functions best when everyone gets what they want by providing something of value that others want. Two unfortunate exceptions are:

1. opt-out parasites: citizens who determine that they are not responsible for providing their share in this complex balance of energies and desires (welfare state/socialist clients); and
2. elites who pursue political power for its own sake and justify it by dishonest or sick pursuit of socialist or communist goals.

These two groups work together and constitute a sad pathology in an essentially fair and productive system, socialism and communism being, of course, theft-justifying and power-centralizing systems.

The new addition to this pathology is gooneybird Islam, which has been imported willingly into the western body politic -- ironically by the aforementioned elites who are indifferent to, or lack basic understanding of, the intricate balance and moral underpinning of free societies.

Thus, we have a voluntarily acquired a new subset of the deranged elite whose lodestone is not the familiar western historical revolutionary effluent but the impenetrable pre-medieval puerilities and ambiguities of the Koran and sharia.

Gooneybird Islam and the nuttiness of the besotted multiculturalists and levelers have now added to (1) the pathology of wannabe socialists and communists (and their nonparticipating clients), (2) the oozings of rigid and changeless 7th-century misogynistic desert tribal society allied with a rapidly growing and restive rejectionist western-resident subpopulation.

It would be nice to think that those who bear responsibility for this fouling of their own nest (which includes the enormous death toll of the last century justifiably laid at their feet) would be permanently denied their tofu and free range chickens or, even, have their pony tails summarily cut off by roaming patrols of senior citizen combat vets.

It really would.