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Craig Pirrong's avatar

Stupid is a hardy perennial.

I remember reading (in Rolling Stone, I think) around 1980 an article about Barry Commoner, a prominent democratic socialist of that era. He said (quoting from memory) "Who voted to build Chryslers?"

Ironically, the market voted not to make Chryslers, or not so many of them anyways. But elected politicians decided to bail Chrysler so that they could continue to be churned out. That's how democratic socialism actually works. But Commoner was too clueless to understand.

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Michael van der Riet's avatar

As an experiment you should try stacking some of your streetwise posts. For some reason the trolls tend to avoid substack.

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Esteban's avatar

One quibble with your thinking here Timmy - yes, the young will vote for this. They are easily enough seduced by "FREE, FREE, FREE" that they won't even notice that bit. Or think ahead a little & wonder "even though I don't want an SUV right now, might these bastards also ban things I really like?". To quote Theodoric of York "Nah".

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