Capitalism Killed the American West
19th August 2022
The makeshift labels these people give themselves often have an implicit note of self-satisfaction: “4Runner Environmentalists”, “Green-necks” or “literary Westerners”. The terms denote a mix of cultural and political tendencies that cut across some of America’s great divides. They tend to be pro-gun but pro-environmental regulation, to have deep faith in the American experiment but a deep awareness of its flaws, to be suspicious of both big government and big corporations, and, above all, to hate the twinned power of government and business, which is the force that mostly shapes the West as we know it.
An odd fellow writing an odd article for an odd website. Like most ill-educated people, he doesn’t know what ‘capitalism’ really means, so just uses it for whatever he dislikes about normal economic activity.