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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Conservatives attempt, badly, to leave you on your own in matters regarding commerce. That's not an asshole policy. It's a form of freedom that progressives don't offer. Unfortunately, conservatives don't execute on that very well, because they allow crony capitalism to run amuck, which allows monopolies and big players to crush the little guys at every turn. But at least in theory, they're trying to leave people alone to make money as they like.
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I just don't believe you on incarceration - tell me who among them has done squat on that.
As to commerce, this is the first time you've said anything that seems to propose a serious, non-assaholic policy for conservatives, so let's look at it.
There are many ways in which conservatives are pushing plenty of government regulation of businesses, they are just different ones than progressives push. Sure, they're fine if a Soy farmer sprays their crops with all kinds of shit, and if they hire low wage workers and discriminate on the basis of sexual preference in their hiring (OK, low wages and discrimination are positively assaholic, but let's not focus on those). But they've used government power to eliminate the Soy farmer's main markets. Isn't that pretty serious government regulation? And they don't want the Soy farmer hiring undocumented workers, and have even been staging raids on farmers. If you look at banks, sure, they don't care about the bank's capital levels as much, or whether the bank decides to use its money to buy equities or go into the venture capital business, but they are pretty eager to prevent any pot related business from being able to use a US bank and you have a President with an explicit goal of using monetary policy to push banks into negative interest rate territory - that's kind of a big deal, isn't it? We can hit other businesses, but looking at commerce broadly, I still see plenty of assaholic policy at place and not the kind of broad "free commerce" approach that we were taught was a hallmark of conservativism back in grade school.
