Free spending choices = ultimate democracy

The free market - with vast competition and choices of how to spend one's money is the ultimate form of democracy.  However, oligarchic socialists are put in the lead of the 2-party fraud system in a socialist, regulated system.  They are given money from establishment crony capitalists - some which pretend to be "progressive" and others which pretend to be "patriotic."  These big corporatists want to ensure business-as-usual and continued profits.  They want to limit competition entering their markets, so they use the state to set regulations and make it too costly or simply impossible for a new entrepreneur to enter.

These politicians would have you believe that taking your money via taxes and inflation, so they can give it to their crony buddies who get them in power and give them kickbacks (some simply in the form of insider trading on the part of the politicians), and voting for them every 2-4 years is democracy.  These politicians, in both parties, enrich themselves off this unholy matrimony of corruption, public "service," and business.  They tell you that doling free money out to people in exchange for votes, putting generation after generation into endless debt, is democratic.

The truth, however, is that the free market is where real democracy lives and breathes.  The fewer taxes and regulations that exist equate to more money in the hands of the People directly and more choices in the market respectively.  This means that instead of voting for a politician every 2-4 years, an individual operating in the free market may vote dozens of times each day with the products and services they voluntarily buy.  Bad products and services and providers get bad reputations and have to improve or go out of business.  Good ones spread and see great success as long as they keep providing enough value and creating happy customers.

Does the owner of your insurance company do business with an evil dictator who violates human rights somewhere?  You can buy insurance from another carrier!  Does your clothing brand mistreat its workers?  You have more options in a free market to choose what to buy.  Does your local fast food restaurant offer truly healthy options?  You can go there when you want and tell your friends!

However, when the state or federal government says your local farmers cannot handle and sell their own meats, and must apply for licenses and use chemical processing on the meats and use an approved processor, your options for organic, pure, local, healthy meat are diminished.  Or if your local farmer supplying healthy raw milk gets raided by thugs, your choice for healthy dairy diminishes.  You are then left with pasteurization and homogenization which denature the milk.  Or you may want that and it's your choice - so you can have either you wish.

The market determines the virtue and the worthiness of products, services, and their providers.  Two companies may offer nearly identical offerings, but one company isn't as socially responsible as the other.  Instead of having regulations which will favor less scrupulous companies who deal with corrupt politicians, informed consumers can directly vote with their pocketbook on who deserves to be uplifted and who deserves to be lowered financially.

If you truly believe in the power of the People and democracy, then the free market is for you!  The free market also does not mean it's a free-for-all chaotic anything-goes land.  Laws can still protect consumers from false advertising, fraud, and other serious infractions.  But how does allowing a representative who gained position due to huge corporate sponsorship set rules to highly-regulate the market seem like a good idea?  Of course their loyalty will always be to their big donors.  Those donors are investing and expect some play in return for their pay.  Rather than win the fair way by providing good value and service, they want to get a leg up on the competition by hiring politicians to change the rules of the race.

Billions of people making countless voting decisions with their hard-earned money is democracy in action.  It is the most effective form of democracy.  People want to make responsible choices and do so when given that choice.  Government exists to protect rights, not take them away.  Protecting the environment, providing for national security with a military, investigating crimes and punishing criminals, and resolving some types of disputes are the other purposes of government.  When government gets involved in the market, bolstering some actors and diminishing others, the people lose - democracy loses.  More options and choices as well as keeping our own money we earned to spend how we see fit is the path to democratic rule.  The votes we make with our money are more powerful and meaningful than the votes we make for politicians.  If you leave it up to politicians, they will steal your freedom to chose and chose for you.  Unsurprisingly they will choose for you their friends in business and the companies they invest in.  That's not democracy.

The free market is the ultimate democracy.