The Big Myth Thrives...

 To the detriment of the vast majority of us all.

The book: The Big Myth; How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

...Details the enormous falsehood of, “The Market,” as the center of the economy, and society.

Check out (Internet search): Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) to begin to shred the, “Big Myth.”

Also, check out the books:

On the Wealth of Nations by P.J. O'Rourke. This book provides insight into what Adam Smith actually wrote about things like, “the invisible hand,” without becoming a door-stopper tome.

A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises by Richard Vague. Details how private, not government, debt is a leading factor, every time, in creating financial crises.

Republicans (too oft aided by, “neo-liberal,” Democrats) are funded by megalomaniacal billionaires (folks who kept billions of $ for themselves while 10s of thousands of employees did/do the work) that fancy themselves as an American aristocracy... Hope to set the USA on a course that returns us to a time before the 1860s.

In the mid-twentieth century the United States made significant progress on: civil and voting rights, women's health care and the aforementioned FFRDCs. Self-satisfied with that progress Americans went on with their lives, and forgot (paid no attention to) the fact that, from beneath their rocks, regressive, insecure, white people still festered.

In the early 21^st century the election of Barrack Obama, an African American (black) man, to two terms as President of these United States brought the worst of humanity (labeled, correctly, by Hillary Clinton as, “deplorables”) out from under their stones.

Under the guise of 'Federalists' and 'Originalists' the wealthy primed the courts, via their Republican sycophants in Congress (aided by the 43rd and 45^th administration), to dilute both voting and civil rights, then strip women of control of their own health care.

Fear of immigrants was stoked with the deplorable base while the means to solve the problem were impeded by the very Republicans in Congress who complained loudly, while campaigning on and about that very issue.

In order to preserve, and perhaps even advance, our Democracy and economy we all must register and vote for Democrats, while communicating satisfaction, or a lack thereof, with all our leaders; avail ourselves of every opportunity to act.