Democracy and Capitalism

By Bobby Eugene Mills

Democracy is a citizen driven system of government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. The foundation of democracy is spiritual-moral values informed by basic tenets of human rights and human dignity: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thus, democracy requires spiritual enlightenment in order that individuals do not devilishly lean upon their own selfish instincts, but spiritually understand that all human life must be lived in community under the reality of God, and under the concept that equal is equal, not more or less equal, else we have a dog-eat-dog environment. Democracy is for spiritually enlightened individuals as well as secularly educated individuals. This is why America has a free public educational system. Education of the masses, not just socio-economic elites. Hence, the Founders created a mass free universal educational system. In a democracy the economy is not controlled by the governmental system but is controlled by the private sector free enterprise system. Therefore, the means of production of goods and services are not controlled by the federal government, but by whatever the marketplace will bear in the private sector.

Again, because of human greed the market is controlled by whatever the market can bear (withstand), price setting greediness. The government does not set the prices for goods and services. A classic example was the corporate price-fixing of insulin, and the Biden administration was able to get the price reduced to (35) dollars. As a reminder, the governmental system is simply a taxing entity to provide military protection from external and internal threats, basic infrastructure needs such as roads, bridges, airports, and other common universal climate related
necessity needs. Unfortunately, and mistakenly out of economic ignorance when the economy experiences an economic downturn or inflation occurs based upon corporate greed, blaming the
President and the Federal Government becomes the wrong-headed economic whipping post rather than corporate sector price-fixing.

hence, an ill-informed economic misunderstanding concerning the economy creates political confusion, and political confusion creates socio-economic confusion. For example, in Biblical times Israel desired a King, because every other nation-state had a King. The Prophet Samuel told the Israelites you do not need a King, because God told Samuel how to equally divide the goods and services. However, the Israelites desired a King, because they desired corruption, and they could not corrupt God’s Prophet, Samuel. God allowed them to choose Ahab the worst King in the history of Israel.