I pledge allegiance to the Free Market of the United States of America, and to the Corporations for which it stands, one Nation under Profit, indivisible, with liberty and justice for shareholders.
Funny thing is there’s so many things the GOP does that are super anti-free market. Corn and soybean subsidies, fossil fuel subsidies, restrictive zoning, parking minimums, curb setback requirements, lot size minimums, trade wars, general protectionism, etc.
GOP doesn’t have principles beyond “fuck you, got mine”. Any they claim to have are just PR. Their “family values” involve protecting and electing known pedophiles. Their “free speech” involves book burnings and firing teachers for teaching “wokeism”. Their “law and order” involves protecting a criminal ex-president facing a litany of criminal charges. Their “small government” involves intruding upon the private lives of consenting adults and trampling any designated out-groups with the full force of state violence.
You know we used to have completely unregulated business?
It was called the industrial revolution/the gilded age. It led to abhorrent working conditions, people maimed or killed almost daily, child labor, all of these whole providing pennies a day.
It wasn’t until the workers of America rose up (a lot of times violently) that we finally got labor laws. Those laws protect the individual from the psychopathic business owners who treated their employees like slaves all because there was no piece of paper that said they couldn’t.
Unregulated business is how you end up in sweat shops.
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