UNLICENSED PUNDITRY: Money for nothing and your chicks for free. Two key paragraphs:

[T]he American Revolution was not fundamentally a contest between competing economic systems.It was a rejection of hereditary privilege and centralized authority in favor of government by consent, individual liberty, equality before the law, and the principle that rights belong to people by nature rather than by permission of the state.

Once you vote for any form of collectivism, any future votes are simply performative because your first vote was to give control of your life over to people who never had any intention of giving it back. There has never been a case of any nation, state, or subdivision of either that turned to collectivism that said, “You know what, this sucks, let’s vote to end it and go back to capitalism.”

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