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This is one of the fundamental flaws of the theology of the right (and center) for the past 50 years. Capitalism is useful to the extent it serves our shared social goals. It is not equal to or even necessarily supportive of Democracy. It has no conscience.
It promotes no shared vision. It would let the weak and old and infirm fall by the wayside. Even equating the promotion of capitalism and free markets as equivalent goals is mistake because it suggests the "free" in markets is somehow related to the "freedoms" of democracy.
As we have seen over the past 50 years, the opposite can be true. Free markets can serve the goals of the few, enrich and empower them further, create inequality and disparities. Further, of course, there is no such thing as "free markets"...all must be and have been regulated.
That is because capitalism produces a concentration of power and because truly free markets would serve economic efficiency and the goals of capitalists over social objectives, the common interests of society and the goals of all. In fact...and this is the core point...
equating capitalism with democracy is a trick to serve the few and is essentially undemocratic.
