Anyone reading "Why Marx Was Right" by Terry Eagleton?

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10. "...and had people not been completely snowed by a.......

corporate pitchman in 1980, things might have been different."

But you see that's the problem. There's ALWAYS a "corporate pitchman" arising to lead people astray, ESPECIALLY when he has the complicity of the MSM and beaucoup bucks behind him. Or her. Thatcher comes to mind on the distaff side. And people have short memories and don't read or understand history, so a lot of them are easily fooled. You can also add us baby boomers who developed a HUGE distrust of government (the government that we rightly thought was trying to kill us with the Vietnam war) during the 60s/70s and Reagan had a fairly easy time with his anti-government meme. Boomers didn't vote for Reagan, BUT I think a lot of boomers sat out the 1980 election because of the distrust of government developed in the previous decade plus. IOW, their enthusiam wasn't there for Carter and the Dems.

The problem is that EVERY time capitalism is regulated, one way or another it slips it's regulatory chains and in a few decades morphs into what it is today. Instead of Jeckyl/Hyde, capitalism is Hyde/Jeckyl. At times the ruthless side can be hidden for a while, but the Mr. Hyde side of capitalism ALWAYS comes out before it's over with. Because that ruthless side is EXACTLY what capitalism IS at it's core.