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Quote by: The Sexorcist  Did you manage to type that with a straight face, Alive?
My god, you do realize that every "capitalist" nation has a healthy dose of government interference, right? It's called pluralism?
Completely free, unfettered capitalism would spiral out of control so quickly that it wouldn't have time to make the poor rich. |
The battle has never been (at least in the past 50 years) between free, unfettered capitalism and "pluralism." It has always been between a fairly good balance and leaning too strongly towards interference and protectionism. As soon as this nation becomes "too capitalistic" I'll be sure to switch sides, but that will never happen, so we have nothing to worry about on that front. Your bogeyman is never going to happen so it isn't worth fighting too strongly against--libertarians are on the side of good in the current battle even if they are wrong in the absolute sense. This is, of course, exactly the opposite of what the article alleges. Libertarians are the unwitting ally of the happy medium (which is a medium heavily biased towards their side anyway).