In actuality, the setting aside of political views for the Olympics is done by only one side of the political spectrum, the Left. This is common with a polarized political system, for true political unity one side, more often than not, is forced to cave. What many liberals fail or refuse to recognize however is that they are caving to conservative principles daily and the Olympics helps to unveil the true liberal love affair with capitalism.

At the heart and soul of both the Olympic Games and the free markets you will find the same driving force, competition.

Love watching the Olympics? Thank Capitalism. Competition and the desire to better one’s own life has brought about the motivation and innovation needed to produce nearly all of the devices we use to view the Olympics. With something as simple as pushing the power button on a flat screen TV, liberals are confessing to the pure success of the capitalistic system.  Whether listening on XM radio, streaming live on a computer, receiving a TV signal via satellite, updating medal totals on a mobile phone, or watching in person, the means of viewing is courtesy of the fruits of capitalism.

The reason for this is simple: personal computers, satellites, cell phones, TV’s, and passenger jets were not designed with the intent of losing money or breaking even, they are here because investors wanted profit and consumers wanted product.

Viewing method is by no means the only area of the Olympics that is deeply-rooted in capitalism.

No one wants uncompetitive athletic performances and no athlete goes into the Games looking to lose.  Athletes train for years to prepare for their two weeks of opportunity, and they require the best and latest in training technology. It is the free market that builds and designs these training products, not a government entity.  The market demand is recognized and met with the intention of making profit, not out of charity.

Whether it’s the new long distance running shoes, weight training equipment, sleeker swimming suit designs, or the healthier training supplements that help the athlete obtain an edge, the ability to create the edge is brought on by the capitalistic system’s incentive program.

For conservatives, this is not out of the ordinary; after all it’s the conservative ideology’s support and advocacy of economic freedom that has brought the Olympic Games into our homes and made them more competitive.  We understand how the system works, and we understand that the luxuries we enjoy have a price tag attached.

For liberals the story is much different, primarily due to the fact that by definition liberalism, or progressivism, at its core advocates for systematic diminishment of our capitalistic economic system. For this reason liberals should be staunchly opposed to the Olympics. However, this fact is not recognized by the average Democrat voter.  They do not realize that many of their leaders are looking to forcefully change the way they are allowed to live their lives, and cause the luxuries they enjoy to be more difficult to obtain.

Remember, it is liberals who are continually designing science void, emissions and carbon regulations which make traveling to the Olympics drastically more expensive. It’s liberals who are constantly pushing to raise business tax rates, which leads to a decrease in the same innovation and productivity which was necessary to bring us the HDTVs, laptop computers, cell phones, and training technologies that make our viewing and enjoyment possible. It’s liberals who see competition in general as the steamroller to the droves of victims whose dependence they sponsor through entitlement programs.

In all reality however this situation is not unique to the Olympics; this type of hypocrisy is on full display throughout our country daily.  The reason is very simple: capitalism creates products of value and naturally people, including those on the left, want those products. The problem comes when ignorance and emotion step in and compel the same people who love their quality products to attack the producers and the means of production; it’s illogical and dangerous to our economy.

Regardless of ideological views, when you turn on the Games this week remember that, like it or not, you are able to do so because of the free market capitalism.

Today, we would like to focus on Hitler’s other little helpers: IBM and GM/Opel.

Edwin Black, who authored War Against The Weak, a forensic examination of the Progressive-Eugenic movement, also has written extensively on the role IBM played prior to and during the Nazi Holocaust. From the introduction of War Against The Weak.

From the IBM and the Holocaust website:

IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM’s strategic alliance with Nazi Germany — beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.Only after Jews were identified — a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately — could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.

But IBM’s Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company’s custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.

IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich’s needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed.

Mr. Black has also documented the role GM/Opel played in arming Hitler’s military. Below is a description of a series of articles he authored on the subject entitled GM and the Nazis:

In a four-part, 10,000 word, special investigative series, Edwin Black chronicles General Motors extensive relationship with Nazi Germany. GM’s Opel was the largest car and truck maker in the Third Reich. When Hitler came to power, his nation was still primarily a horse-drawn country. From the outset, GM consciously mass produced cars and truck for the German military, becoming a major and indispensable spear of Nazi rearmament. This included the Blitz truck which became the mainstay of the Blitzkrieg that conquered Europe. GM concealed its American control of Opel through special executives committees and board directorates. After the War, GM took all the profit, including that gained from slave labor. After a Congressional investigation, GM tried to obscure the facts and pressured Washington about a special report on the company’s activities. To this day, the company frustrates research efforts into its protracted and profitable involvement in Nazi genocide. The series, published in various sizes and edited formats, was based on Chapter 10 of Internal Combustion and additional new research.

As we wrote yesterday:

In many ways, Hitler and his Reich reflected the very worst traits of humanity from across the spectrum of society.

For those of us that support free markets and capitalism, these cases of American corporate partnership with the Nazi regime represent the very worst of unchecked corporatism, interested only in profit, void of any moral boundary. It’s a disgrace.

These crimes should be acknowledged, and studied as examples of the worst case scenarios possible under Corporate Statism.

They should also stand as a testament to the horrors that can be inflicted when corporations are in bed with fascist-socialist states, void of any free market to speak of.

Every human enterprise is corruptible. Free market capitalism is obviously no exception. If, moving forward, we wish to avoid sacrificing our humanity again at the altar of profit, we would do well to learn from our past failures. It is not possible to learn without an honest examination of the facts.

Can we count on the Progressive movement to acknowledged their skeletons in this horrifying chapter of history? Perhaps they, too, could learn from their mistakes, no?

At the risk of sounding redundant…Every human enterprise is corruptible. Progressive-Socialism is obviously no exception. If, moving forward, we wish to avoid sacrificing our humanity again at the altar of Progressive-Socialism, we would do well to learn from our past failures. It is not possible to learn without an honest examination of the facts.

Given that all human enterprise is corruptible, just ask yourself with which system you would prefer to take your chances: Free Market Capitalism, or Progressive-Socialism?

Americans understand that prosperity, true prosperity, is created by an economic system where strong dynamic firms with better ideas, management and motivated employees  are free to prosper and the weak are allowed to fail.  This kind of Darwinian economic system has allowed our country to prosper for over 200 years.

Americans also understand that the federal government doesn’t really create jobs that lead to economic growth because Americans know that any job the government creates  can only be paid for by increasing taxes or by borrowing money–probably from the Chinese.  Nor is there any need to remind Americans that small businesses are the engine that move our economy, and that small businesses create 3 out of every 4 jobs in this country.

On the other hand, there is an urgent need to help President Obama learn the basic principles of a free enterprise system and how jobs are actually created in a market economy, for he is plunging headlong in the opposite direction.

Even now, our President is unwisely erecting new barriers to job growth on small business by  increasing the heavy burden of taxes and fees on small businesses that stifle competitiveness and growth.

President Obama ’s plan doubles down on bad policy by increasing spending on entitlements and wealth redistribution that will further erode  American competitiveness, wealth creation and power.  The President’s misplaced priorities are slowly, and certainly, convincing Americans that Obama just doesn’t get it, and that Obama has no understanding of what makes an economy competitive.

Competitiveness comes from a strong economy, which comes from a strong private sector business community—especially the small business community .  Crippling taxes, wealth redistribution, trillions of dollars of debt are disincentives that make the United States less competitive.  Americans know that creating a system that punishes  the most successful Americans will not lead to economic growth.

Americans understand that there are winners and there are losers, that some kernels pop, and some don’t.  When was the last time the Kentucky Derby announced: “let’s all share the blanket of roses and the prize money and the Derby Cup–after all, we’re all winners?”  Not.

The Obama Administration may be filled with idealistic, clever academics and bureaucrats, but they know diddlysquat about creating jobs,  Ten months of the Obama Administration, 4.3 million additional lost jobs and a jobless rate of 10.2%  are all the proof American need of the failure of President Obama’s job-creation-pudding scheme.

Good teachers use every tool in their arsenal to help their students learn.  President Obama has had ten months of on-the-job (OJT) training to try to get up to speed on business, the economy and competitiveness.  But, the President’s OJT is proceeding slowly, too slowly.  Our country needs for  Obama to learn quite a bit faster if our economy is to prosper.

Barack Obama is now in the midst of a teachable moment, by the capitalists in China.  So, if the President, after docilely accepting lectures from the Chinese,  returns to the United States, smarter in the ways of free market capitalism, then bully for him and bully for us.  If the President returns to endorse the same, failed , big-government, wealth redistribution schemes combined with colossal debt, then he needs to be put on double-academic probation until his performance improves.