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i wish “capitalism but good” was a real political platform you could actually vote for
like fuck me i wish i could just vote for a fucking carbon tax. the market can solve things if you give it a fucking chance. the left is too attached to the fantasy of not having markets and the right either wants to never intervene or to only intervene for conservative causes
in theory maybe i would want to vote for the liberal centrist party (i live in a country where that is an explicit option! there's two even!) but in practice i extremely don't because they can't imagine what a functioning market would look like. leftists at least have a dream.
mainstream centrists will really look at a well-functioning state monopoly and decide that their next great political project will be replacing it with an absolutely dogshit public-private hybrid market. just the most awful market you've seen. and consider that an achievement
meanwhile you could really do more for liberalism by making some pointed interventions in the markets that are already “free”, because for every year you refuse to do anything about those unending sources of human misery, all your political enemies get stronger
if i seem like i have fundamental leftist sympathies but a pragmatic liberal/libertarian bent it's because the existence of a grey market for ___ has done more for _____ ______ than any amount of voting ever will