05-10-2017, 10:37 AM
(05-10-2017, 02:02 AM)Galen Wrote:(05-10-2017, 12:10 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Economic freedom has meaning only if there is no concentration of economic power. When that concentration exists. 'economic freedom' is debased to extreme inequality.
Do you ever stop to consider the role of regulatory capture not to mention bailouts of failing entities in causing exactly that? Expecting the government, which is fostering crony capitalism, to save you from it makes utterly no sense.
The Trump Administration sponsors crony capitalism in its purest. All that can save us is its ineptitude.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.