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To: Rarebird who wrote (197587)	3/23/2023 1:47:53 AM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217915

That there is a need for rules... doesn't obviate that the rules you need have to be the RIGHT rules... And, that's mostly not what we get, ever... as "no difference between" means quibbles over rules intending to benefit one or the other... this one or that one, always at some others expense... and NOT a focus on rules that foster something greater than individual advantage.. That's a direct byproduct of the reality the the philosophical underpinnings of "communists, capitalists and kings" are all, only, entirely... materialist... I think there is a failure occurring... not on the left, and not on the right... but in the camp of the libertarian thinkers... the only group in the game who have adopted a philosophy that is not intrinsically materialistic... but who have themselves failed to understand, or have allowed understanding to atrophy... Free markets offer huge advantages... not because "free markets" are an economic policy... but because "free markets" are the economy you get when you prioritize individual freedoms ahead of group interest in fostering specific outcomes in economics. That they enable that better outcome by focusing on something entirely different than "economic policy" addressing specific "outcomes"... should be obvious, I would think... ? But, it appears not to be, today... Easy enough, if you do understand it... to understand why the policy you see advocated today repeatedly fails... The issue is... Democrats don't "provide a check" on capitalists... that prevents capitalists doing harm to others by obstructing free market functions ? Instead... Democrats simply oppose freedom... and the subset of opposing freedom as it is expressed in markets is only fully consistent with that ? The rules Democrats seek to impose... are NOT that set of rules that enables free market functions to exist. But, as that's also true of capitalists... "no difference" ?