https://weingarten.substack.com/p/whistleblower-docs-reveal-deep-state of course, when the company willingly bends to the fascists because they are on the same side, it might be a bit different. this is the stuff that gets conservatives up in arms. if they played it straight, no problem. they don't.
This is a classical economics and conservative approach. That is who I am.
It doesn't work.
I'm increasingly skeptical that anything with a "light touch" works with these people (the Left). The problem is that when we let our ideology of freedom guide our approach to regulation, the Left steps in to fill the gap (and ruin it). With the exception of a few pet issues, the Left wants to absolutely control everything. It is who they are. So we conservatives are left trying to chase after all the damage with deregulation and an entirely defensive posture.
We never go on offense.
I don't see conservatives regulating companies like Big Tech simply because we "disagree" but because we have to make Corporate America fear us, too. Because these companies only fear the Left, they push ever leftward, and our culture and economy start to look alien to us.
So I see the regulation as a means to wield a stick and say, "hey, we can do it too, so knock it off." I think this has to continue until large companies get back in line with an ideologically neutral positioning. Then we can go back to being defenders of big business capitalism.
But until then, we use our power to explain to them that if you silence us, shame us and work against our interests, then we will punish you just like the Left does.
I think that ideological impurity is a small price to pay in order to defend the longer-term arc of trying to get back to a free market economy. Because we are not a free market economy anymore.
"the problem with socialism is socialism. the problem with capitalism is capitalists." There is too much power concentrated it too few hands in our private economy. When companies like Blackrock and Vanguard and big banks can start telling publicly traded companies to make decisions based on environmental views held by the leadership of Blackrock etc something is really wrong. It would be like 19th century railroad monopolies telling farmers what crops they are willing and not willing to haul to market. You can grow whatever you want, but . . . Regulation doesn't change that, it only strengthens the relationship between the too few and the regulators. Hate to sound like a commie, but it would be better to let a thousand flowers bloom than have so much power concentrated in so few hands.
https://weingarten.substack.com/p/whistleblower-docs-reveal-deep-state of course, when the company willingly bends to the fascists because they are on the same side, it might be a bit different. this is the stuff that gets conservatives up in arms. if they played it straight, no problem. they don't.
Populism, once unleashed, takes on a life of its own. To think that people who call themselves "Republicans" buy onto increased ambulance chasing and venue chasing should make one shake their head. https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/policy/antitrust-senate-venue-coalition
This is a classical economics and conservative approach. That is who I am.
It doesn't work.
I'm increasingly skeptical that anything with a "light touch" works with these people (the Left). The problem is that when we let our ideology of freedom guide our approach to regulation, the Left steps in to fill the gap (and ruin it). With the exception of a few pet issues, the Left wants to absolutely control everything. It is who they are. So we conservatives are left trying to chase after all the damage with deregulation and an entirely defensive posture.
We never go on offense.
I don't see conservatives regulating companies like Big Tech simply because we "disagree" but because we have to make Corporate America fear us, too. Because these companies only fear the Left, they push ever leftward, and our culture and economy start to look alien to us.
So I see the regulation as a means to wield a stick and say, "hey, we can do it too, so knock it off." I think this has to continue until large companies get back in line with an ideologically neutral positioning. Then we can go back to being defenders of big business capitalism.
But until then, we use our power to explain to them that if you silence us, shame us and work against our interests, then we will punish you just like the Left does.
I think that ideological impurity is a small price to pay in order to defend the longer-term arc of trying to get back to a free market economy. Because we are not a free market economy anymore.
"the problem with socialism is socialism. the problem with capitalism is capitalists." There is too much power concentrated it too few hands in our private economy. When companies like Blackrock and Vanguard and big banks can start telling publicly traded companies to make decisions based on environmental views held by the leadership of Blackrock etc something is really wrong. It would be like 19th century railroad monopolies telling farmers what crops they are willing and not willing to haul to market. You can grow whatever you want, but . . . Regulation doesn't change that, it only strengthens the relationship between the too few and the regulators. Hate to sound like a commie, but it would be better to let a thousand flowers bloom than have so much power concentrated in so few hands.