But they don't know it.
They hate the idea of a company deciding to not publish a book because that book doesn't sell and hurts their brand image
They hate the idea of a company requiring their employees to be vaccinated even though they also hate unions and are in favor of "At-Will Employment" laws which basically allow companies to hire and fire for any reason.
They hate that small towns are being de-populated because their children have realized that the best way to get a decent job is to go to the cities.
They hate the fact that small/ local businesses are being swallowed up by huge corporations.
They hate the fact that people are choosing to have kids later and later in life because of how expensive it is to live.
The American social conservatives actually hate capitalism more than almost any other large demographic in America, but because they don't have material analysis, they don't realize that Capitalism either creates or directly contributes to many of the aspects of American life which they despise.
i'm gonna ramble all stream of consciousness and probably say wrong things but I think about this a lot
Saying they hate capitalism isn't fully correct. They hate many of the effects of capitalism, but what they like is national, small town industrial capitalism as opposed to international, finance capitalism. They like capitalism until the illusion of constant upward mobility and bootstrap small business fades. They like it until there's a wider society that can make demands out of entrenched cultural institutions. They like the type of capitalism that existed in the US until the 1880s or so, where if you were a white person struggling in a large city but had enough gumption and knowhow, you could move out west, kick some natives off their land, start a tannery, and soon enough have your own plot of land and no one to tell you how to live. Maybe even start a town and name it after yourself. Who cares. Do as you please, since America belongs to you and you're blessed by the lord.
What they hate is that was a temporary state of affairs and capitalism eventually washes away the illusions of agency that 19th century white small business owners felt. Eventually your isolated towns have to form supply chains with the outside world. Eventually you'll be doing business with other nations. You can't hide forever. Those sinking rates of profit demand that you continue to connect into all available outlets for cash. Eventually you'll realize your stupid small business simply can't compete with the huge corporations and you'll declare this unfair. What happened to my god given rights as an American? Why does the federal government give them special treatment and not me?
Then they have to come up with completely wrong answers to fill that void, since they can't blame the very thing they're standing on. It's not capital and markets, no, it's capital and markets being used incorrectly by the bad people who cater to foreigners and the lazy.
yeah I guess that summarizes it
conservatives are the cultural flotsam of the material interests of the petty and national bourgeoisie who have misidentified the source of their rapidly shrinking influence and profit, or they've properly identified it and are effective con artists, or they're both
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