"Conservatives can’t — or won’t — see that America, with its ever-increasing embrace of statism, is becoming like those other countries that conservatives are criticizing. Conservatives have convinced themselves that American statism is a good thing while statism in countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua is a bad thing. For example, conservatives are pointing out the economic disaster in Venezuela, which they say is a result of governmental mismanagement of the economy. But here at home, what do they advocate? They embrace a way of life based on government management of the economy. They just think that Americans, and especially conservatives, are better at managing an economy than Latin Americans. Like their statist counterparts in Venezuela, they scoff at the libertarian notion of a genuine free-market society, one in which government plays no role in the economy whatsoever."
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:31:58 +0000
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