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JD Free's avatar

Most Americans underestimate just how out of touch with reality the representative Leftist is.

Of course, most Americans are right there with them.

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DC Reade's avatar

You're the one that's out of touch. Markets need to serve human purposes. Not the other way around.

One needn't be a Leftist ideologue in order to agree with that general statement of principle. But I'd venture that the only basis for disagreeing with it is dogmatic allegiance to Rightist economic Ideology.

All ideologies are head games- they have the power to construct all sorts of abstractions, idealizations, and hypothetical examples to justify their pretensions to Final Wisdom. Economic reality is empirical, not a set of conditions to be molded by a the ironclad precepts of a Theory of Everything.

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JD Free's avatar

I really hope you don't think that anything you just wrote was intelligent.

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