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Getting off topic, but while I'm not a fan of any of those philosophies, I'd be wary of conflating too quickly these different varieties of free-market supporte
by _delirium 9y ago
Getting off topic, but while I'm not a fan of any of those philosophies, I'd be wary of conflating too quickly these different varieties of free-market supporters. Rand fans who got into the whole Objectivism thing via her books, parts of the SF scene, etc., vs hereditary billionaires who are attracted to Heritage-Foundation-style free-market economics (whose political expression in the U.S. is mainly as "business Republicans", though sometimes as "corporate Democrats"), are fairly different groups of people. There's the occasional overlap, but it's mostly different people with different motivations.
- specialist 9y agoTrue. During the aughts, I attended many of our local political parties. Socialists, Dems, GOP, Libertarians, etc. All these cliques, for lack of a better word, are mostly defined by what they're not (in opposition to other cliques). The exception was our local Green Party. Their members were defined affirmatively, by what they stood for, vs in opposition to some other group. The Libertarians were especially mushy in their supposedly beliefs, and no two agreed on anything other than everyone else was wrong. Kinda like the various Christian sects.