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"Almost-congratulations on this. Much more balanced and realistic than any of the drivel Michael Bates spews about conservatism.
And then we get to the end and you prove that you've been drinking the kool-aid after all.
You wrote that "voters aren't happy to let the marketplace work its magic if the world is falling apart." I may be picking nits since you specifically did not mention the *free* market, but you certainly implied. We haven't had anything resembling a free market...well, ever, really, but it's been really blatant for decades now.
"Our" government has been subsidizing huge corporations, erecting Byzantine regulations to keep anyone new from competing, and passing laws written by the corporations' lobbyists specifically for those corporations' benefit. Oh, and let's not forget the central banker types who control the Federal Reserve. You know, the ones we trusted to plan and control the market, trying to even out the market's natural boom/bust cycle. The ones who have admitted they caused the Depression and were the first ones to get bailed out.
That's the playing field that all those faux "laissez-faire" types were crowing about. It should be obvious that "de-regulating" that sort of thing will lead to disaster. But it has nothing to do with a free market.
To go back to your analogy, "our" government might be like a fire fighter. But it's one who's spent the last 40-ish years charging us to pile brush up next to our homes and soak it/them in lighter fluid.
If it's all the same to you, I'd rather not have that kind of firefighter around."
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