Just when you thought that Obama couldn’t say anything more shocking than “you didn’t build that,” the president makes an extremely revealing statement about who decides the winners and losers in this country: “We don’t believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country.”

The dark side of Obama’s statement: collective achievement equals collective punishment

As Obama’s “you didn’t build that” quote is being probed and analyzed, I’d like to point out that the idea of redistributing other people’s achievements is only a tip of an enormous ideological iceberg. Its invisible foundation sinks deep into the murky depths underneath the floating wreckage of American values.

In the 1990s renowned political scientist and author Ben Barber wrote in Jihad vs McWorld that global capitalism was at war with democracy.  He was right, of course, and the intensity of that war has only increased since then.  Global corporations are battling democracy’s environmental regulations, taxation, labor laws, legislation aimed at fairness or income equality.  They are battling democracy’s concern for the long-term survival of community or any values more human than economic.

So I guess socialistic economics will?????