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This is not rocket science: An economy is a system to benefit people, not a sacred vessel that emanates magic powers so long as no one touches it.
Free enterprise and capitalism exist in every country where they're not actively suppressed, including those where private greed and public weakness has torn society to shreds. Our country is about something much more important than that. As to what made America great, I can think of a few things other than business - as apparently could the people who put their blood on the line to found it:
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. - Thomas Jefferson
Conservatives often assume that everything they hear comes from somewhere else, perhaps because their own ideas are so rarely the product of independent thought. Well, rest assured, regardless of how your own politics comes about, everything you hear from me directly reflects my own thoughts and feelings. I don't claim to be totally original - everyone who does is just ignorant of history - but don't invent some shadow forces to account for my ideas simply because yours may have been received unquestioningly from talk radio or cable news. It's just us talking here: There is nobody to hold your hand while you flounder to defend the indefensible, and nobody is telling me what to say other than my own perceptions and intelligence. So stop trying to dodge the issues.
It would probably help your position if you got out into the real world and developed some street smarts instead of keeping your nose buried in the books devloping only book smarts. Human behavior is something book smart individuals will never understand.