I suppose so. But I doubt the Taliban will ever integrate into a democracy.
Another topic:
Is a totally laissez-faire government a bad thing? Surely some parts of the market should be privatized and run by the people, but what about areas like health care, or the pharmaceutical industry? Or maybe energy? Aren't some industries not designed to be run by corporations who will extort as much dough from the people as possible? Or do you think it's a slippery slope? That when some industries are socialized others will follow, and pretty soon we will be living in the USSR? I don't really buy that argument.
Maybe the problem with American 'capitalism' is that it is anything but that. It could be that we have become a corporatist society.
Corporatism - Political system in which power is exercised through large organizations (businesses, trade unions, etc) working in concert with each other, under the direction of the state.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/corporatism
Here's a great video by the respectable Cenk Uygur titled 'The Difference Between Capitalism and Corporatism' - and I'm not sure how to make a hyperlink to YouTube without posting the actual video. Sorry
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