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Originally Posted by detbuch
Economic patriotism. That sounds like a notion which could lead a free market down the rabbit hole of fascism/socialism/communism/totalitarianism.
Well, I suppose since we're halfway there, might as well finish the trip.
But shouldn't it be the other way around? I mean, shouldn't government power in a presumably free society be used to protect its presumably free market rather than to coerce it into allegiance to its regulatory, anti-competitive control? Shouldn't patriotism in a free society be to the people and their institutions rather than to the central government?
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it might lead to socialism, if you assume that everything ends up
at one extreme or
the other. I see just
about everything, ending up between the two extremes.
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