CAPITALISM IS KILLING US

Capitalism Is Killing Us: The Unholy Alliance of Greed and Power

America is dying, and the cause of death is unbridled capitalism. Not the productive capitalism of fair competition and innovation, but the predatory, fascist-aligned version that now rules us. The capitalism we face today has morphed into an existential threat. It is no longer a system of commerce. It is a system of control, domination, and destruction. And if we do not rein it in, it will kill us all.

The original promise of capitalism was simple: hard work, fair trade, shared prosperity. But that promise has been hijacked by those who see profit as the only moral good and power as its necessary ally. The oligarchs who control our economy now control our government. And they are systematically dismantling every safeguard that once protected the people, from clean air to fair wages, from food safety to public health.

This is not an accident. It is a strategy. The fascist right has openly declared its intentions: eliminate regulation, defund government, destroy the administrative state. Why? Because the government is the last institution capable of standing in the way of total corporate control. Every environmental rule, every labor protection, every food inspection, every healthcare standard. These are not red tape. These are lifelines. And they are being cut one by one.

The result? We are sicker, poorer, more anxious, more addicted, more overworked, and more alone than any generation before us. We eat chemicals, drink lead, breathe poison, and work ourselves to death, for what? For the glory of billionaires? For the quarterly earnings of shareholders?

Let us be clear: this is not capitalism. It is cannibalism.

And standing silently beside this death machine is its corrupted companion: Christianity. Not the Christianity of the Sermon on the Mount, not the Jesus who fed the poor and turned over the money changers' tables, but the bastardized gospel of greed. Today’s Christian nationalists preach prosperity, not compassion. They champion wealth, not justice. They see the downtrodden not as their moral duty but as a nuisance.

They have traded in Christ's teachings for the commandments of capital: Take yours, and then take theirs.

This alliance of fascist capitalism and corrupted Christianity has become the dominant moral order in America. It blesses billionaires and blames the poor. It deregulates the poisons we eat and criminalizes those who cannot afford healthcare. It cuts taxes for oil barons and slashes food aid for children. It screams about freedom while making us slaves to the market.

Enough.

We must kill this death cult before it kills us. We must restore the role of government as protector of the people, not enabler of the predator class. We must reassert the principle that the public good matters more than private gain. We must reimagine capitalism not as a god, but as a tool, a tool that must be constrained, shaped, and sometimes stopped in order to serve the many, not the few.

And if Christianity wishes to remain in this fight, it must return to its moral roots. It must shed its nationalist robes and remember that its founder was not a CEO, but a socialist carpenter who walked with the poor, not the powerful.

This is not just about economics. It is about survival, physical, moral, and democratic. Unregulated capitalism is not just unjust. It is lethal. And unless we rise to defeat it, it will not stop until it has devoured us all.

William James Spriggs