This is so true for the housing crisis. Conservative NIMBYs will be like "deregulation good!" and "free market good!", but then they religiously show up to any and all city hall meetings to rant and rave about how we need to use heavy-handed regulations to protect "historic" parking lots and the "neighborhood character".
“I want less regulation on my investments and less black people in my neighborhood!”
Fewer* mein führer
Land has rights!*
*Landowners
After "historic" I expected a lot of things like houses, trees, churches, etc, but parking lots wasn't one of them
Unregulated unions are peak free market but they don't ever like hearing that one do they
Capitalism means I get whatever I want whenever I want it and if I don't like it, it doesn't happen. Because I'm rich and any time it works out for me, poor people also get rich.
*society rejects bigotry and violence *
“CaNceL CuLtURe!!”
Them: Keep the government out of my personal life
Also them: [screams about banning everything they're told they shouldn't like]
Stay out of my personal life! *attacks marriage and LGBT existence and medical privacy *
This country is about liberty! denies bodily autonomy to half the population
Though at the top levels where propaganda strategies get decided, the abortion thing is probably more about keeping the working class fully staffed.
Thucydides unknowingly described capitalism from a conflict between Athens and Melos around 400 BC
δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν
or as Richard Crawley translated it, "The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must."
This seems very general, applicable to capitalism as well as to all other economic and government types.
Or do you say feudalism isn't perfectly described by that statement?
Feudalism is largely proto-capitalism, so, yeah it works there.
Also "let the States decide" if in the US. Just not the States they don't like.
A good heuristic for conservative thought remains "Ingroups to protect, outgroups to bind.". They're assholes.
One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
Conservatives are all about what benefits them and them only. If it also benefits people they don't like, then it's not good enough. If it comes at the cost of others, even better, but it's all about privilege. They don't have fixed ideological positions like 'free market over regulation, always and everywhere'. If the free market gives them what they want, they favour it. If the free market decides in a way that doesn't benefit them, they're against it. If regulation gives them what they want, regulation is good. If regulation works against them, regulation is bad.
That's literally all there is to it.
Ohio right now
Libertarians: Let the free market decide. Free Market decides. Libertarians: Cool!
Just as well the Free Market means many markets/options.
The next thing to expect is they would cry that free market is fake all along.
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Conservatives: LET THE FREE MARKET DECIDE
Free market: *decides*
Conservatives: this is outRAGEOUS
When pandering to DINKs is more profitable than to align with conservative yokels on welfare.
