Who's Evil Reality Would you Rather Have?

[absyntheNsugar]

Christian Reconstructionists or Libertine Freemarketers?

I'll take the Libertines any day!

[LawSchoolLiberal]

1. I second that vote.

n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. libertines

because at least I'd be assured that my presence/existence wouldn't be made illegal some day.

I might get eaten up in the dog eat world of it, but at least I'd have the fighting chance everyone else had, without fear of the government randomly stripping me of my life on a religious, idiotic whim.

And if we could get a libertine freemarketer society AFTER the rapture, when all the UberChristian idiots realize they WEREN'T the chosen ones and get off their holier-than-though high horse, that would be really cool.

[teryang]

3. Reconstructionists

...because their reality doesn't exist and it is patently obvious. That revolution was fought and won during the French and American revolutions. Of course, they are trying to turn back the clock and are allied naturally with the absolutists from the bush dynasty.

"Freemarkets" are a more sinister threat because of the a deceptive appeal in "freemarkets" that most do not understand. There is no such thing as a freemarket and never has been. The unseen hand theory is a fraud. There are only favored and protected markets. If there was such a thing as freemarkets, one wouldn't need trade policy representatives bearing gifts for government, paid by government, and supported by gunboat diplomacy. One wouldn't need tax incentives, customs, the FDA, etc. People who market wish to be facilitated, protected, sponsored, and sometimes paid outright by government. They expect favorable policy and infrastructure to be provided at minimal and ultimately no cost by government. When they are not, they claim the market isn't free. When they are, they say it is free and therefore economically superior. How do thousands of lobbyists make their living? By getting government to curry favor for their industries. Who has the most lobbyists? The advocates of so called "free markets."

I suppose one could imagine a "freemarket" but paradoxically it wouldn't be the utopia most imagine. Typically unregulated markets degenerate into a social and economic catastrophe.