[MD] This is what democracy looks like

[Michael R. Brown]

Hi Horse -

"The rich and powerful" is another non-existent collective. "The rich and 
powerful" is a useless fiction.

So, no apologist. Denier of collectivist fairy-stories.

The fairy story is that there are good people who are "ordinary folk" and 
they all think and want pretty much the same, and then there's the bad 
villains who are "the rich and powerful" and they are few in number but keep 
the honest, nice hobbits down with these evil rings of power they send 
influence out via from on top of their big mean selfish towers.

Well, no.

If you could show me a completely collectivist, State-controlled country 
that did measurably, markedly better than countries that hew more toward 
economic liberty - like the U.S., Canada, and now Sweden (which has been 
reducing its welfare statism markedly) - then I might do more than smile at 
your flailings. As it is, you sound like a Limbaugh of the left.

> the scare tactics of anti-Semitism, collectivism, anarchism etc. etc.

Ah, so anti-Semitism is nothing to be watched? Understood.

> It's always the government or the lefties or anyone

No, it was quite specific policies pursued for the last one hundreds years 
quite independent of who sits in the big circular office.

> never the good old conservatives and the honest bankers and 
> industrialists.

With regard to what I'm talking about - yes. Though many of them kept it 
going, just fine. All of the worst things were set up by Progressives - from 
Woodrow Wilson to FDR to LBJ's congress - but businesspeople and 
conservatives didn't fight them as they should. They collaborated. 
Conservatives and industrialists are better than leftists at economics, but 
they are by no means ideal. (I'm not a conservative; I'm a classical 
liberal. So I reject your cartoon there, too.)

> so are your bankers and your industrialists - they're the ones that have 
> been doing the screwing.

Riiiiiiiight. They set up Medicare and Social Security and abandoned real 
money.

> And if you don't understand what ordinary folk are then you really have 
> lost your way.

In other words, if I don't agree with your ideas, I'm the Devil.

Cool.


MRB
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