{"id":1787721,"date":"2022-12-27T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787721"},"modified":"2022-12-27T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T14:34:06","slug":"david-l-bahnsen-no-aoc-capitalism-isnt-too-consumerist-around-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-l-bahnsen-no-aoc-capitalism-isnt-too-consumerist-around-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"David L. Bahnsen: No, AOC, Capitalism Isn\u2019t Too &#8220;Consumerist&#8221; Around the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdavid-l-bahnsen-no-aoc-capitalism-isnt-too-consumerist-around-the-holidays%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787721&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/07\/aoc-subject-of-congressional-ethics-probe\/\">Critics of capitalism like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> Look at Madison Avenue storefronts covered in holiday decorations. \u201ccase in point\u201d \u2014 a beautiful and spiritual time like Advent and Hanukkah is reduced to shopping, sales and accumulation of goods. You may feel the same when you look at piles full of ripped-up wrapping.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it\u2019s a common critique that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/05\/aoc-sinks-millions-into-campaign-capitalism-venture\/\">a free-market economy inevitably becomes overly \u201cconsumerist\u201d<\/a> \u2014 that market forces lead people to value things only in a commercial context and miss out on humanity\u2019s deeper values.<\/p>\n<p>This old criticism appears to be losing currency. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2022\/09\/19\/modest-declines-in-positive-views-of-socialism-and-capitalism-in-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September Pew poll<\/a> It was found that 79% of Americans between 18 and 29 have had a sex relationship with a woman. \u201cvery\u201d Oder \u201csomewhat\u201d Positive view of socialism A <a href=\"https:\/\/scri.siena.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ICS0619-7419-Crosstabs-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2019 Siena College poll<\/a> It was found that the majority of New Yorkers young see no contradiction between socialism, being a good American and socialism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/bahnsen-capitalism-682.jpg\"><\/a>Pew&#8217;s September poll revealed that 79% of Americans between 18 and 29 have had an abortion. \u201cvery\u201d Oder \u201csomewhat\u201d Positive view of socialism. Getty Images\/Cavan Images RF <\/p>\n<p>Cultural observation that Americans become too consumer-minded during holidays can be used to attack the market economy. Somehow we\u2019re to believe that Americans would be less materialistic, less commercial and less superficial if only the state played a larger role in society\u2019s economic transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t buy it for a second.<\/p>\n<p>This holiday season, free marketeers can be positive These are three reasons to be optimistic:<\/p>\n<p>A chronic case of half-empty glasses. One can understand seeing the exorbitant number of TV commercials and shopping-mall parking challenges and concluding we\u2019ve reduced the holidays to a consumer tale. It is important to remember that people buy the vast majority of these items for family and friends they love. What should we be focusing on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of capitalism like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Look at Madison Avenue storefronts covered in holiday decorations. \u201ccase in point\u201d \u2014 a beautiful and spiritual time like Advent and Hanukkah is reduced to shopping, sales and accumulation of goods. You may feel the same when you look at piles full of ripped-up wrapping. Indeed, it\u2019s a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1787724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[8303,11998,8334,11997,5458,10013,4044,10509,5778,3819],"class_list":["post-1787721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-no","tag-consumerist","tag-aoc","tag-bahnsen","tag-bongino","tag-capitalism","tag-david","tag-holidays","tag-isnt","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}