Reply #41: Yes they do -- some [View All]

[Cats Against Frist]

Right-Wing Libertarians and "pseudo-free marketeers" are often confused. Lots of them are freepers who think they're pseudointellectuals -- these ARE the people who worship money, above all else, and wrongly see the "free market" as what the GOP stands for, now, only with deregulation and fewer taxes.

In fact, the GOP is corporatist, or corpo-fascist, and they have nothing to do with the free market, whatsoever -- and the funny thing is that most of their constituents wouldn't even know how to handle their free-market "responsibilities" if it bit them on the ass end.

There are a multitude of things that GOPTARDS support, that they are unaware are the antitheses to the free market, such as -- deploying the U.S. military for corporate purposes, the corporation's status as a legal human, corporate and farm welfare, subsidy and bailout, red state pork, big-government-engineered "trickle down" economic policies, closed-door deals with energy companies, militarization, border control, laws prohibiting the following "business" ventures and transactions: medicinal marijuana and other drug use, prostitution, gambling, professional euthanasia -- even censoring television is technically "against the free market," -- remember, the market sorts EVERYTHING out -- not someone's constructed morality. In addition, the Bush administration, in cahoots with pharma have both stripped the federal government of its consumer bargaining power, as well as prohibiting the purchase of drugs from Canada -- going as far as to threaten "storefronts" with arrest.

NONE NONE NONE NONE of these things are "free market" -- they're corpo-fascist -- but most GOPTARDS, freepers and pseudolibertarians don't even realize this and blanketly support it.

I feel we would actually be FAR better off with a free market -- insofar as it was accompanied by a discriminating laborer and consumer, and a swift and serious justice system for those who have been robbed of their life, liberty or property by the negligence, gross negligence or reckless disregard of a corporate entity. We'd be much better off if we would give up national chains and brand names and shop locally, re-boost our manufacturing base and ditch some of this consumer bullshit.

The problem is -- many "free marketers" are not really free marketers -- they're corpo-fascists and corporatists trying to pull one over on people, or are just ignorant themselves.