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Lloyd Ellis's avatar

A few years back I remember economist Bryan Caplan saying that for him there was no difference between republicans and democrats. That seemed crazy initially, but he explained that on his political spectrum you had Karl Marx on one side and Murray Rothbard on the other, and the two parties are so close together on most issues that you can barely see any distinction. That sounds closer to the truth.

Both parties favor war over peace, and both love capitalism but prefer their own vivisected version of it so that it benefits certain people over others. And they love freedom, as long as some people have greater freedom than others, and some people can have their freedom revoked. Freedom, a la carte, a little freedom here, a little less there, and pretty soon you have a slave state of people happy to eat leftover crumbs. Utopia, at last.

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David Ryan's avatar

The most accurate post I've read in a while. Great writing. Thank you

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