And what’s doubly ironic is they’re INCREDIBLY selective about what they want free market for. Abolish restrictive zoning, parking minimums, and other arbitrary deed restrictions to allow literally anything but suburban sprawl and help alleviate the housing crisis? Nope, the GOP is all about government-mandated sprawl for all! Eliminating child labor laws? Hell yeah, GOP is all about that free market with zero government mandates at all, baby!
It’s so blatantly obvious their whole schtick is just pure, unabashed selfishness. Keep burdensome land use regulations because it inflates their property values (which is profitable to existing landlords and speculators), but reject child labor laws so you can hire cheaper labor.
It’d be one thing if they actually tried to be consistent in support of the free market, but they don’t even try to. As in many things, the GOP has no principles besides profit.
Yeah. If we are talking about the constituents though, it’s funny because they’re actually trying to be selfish but actually most of them hurt themselves too. it’s worth it to them if they hurt enough other people though. A very strange psychology
Definitely. It’s selfish but in a short-sighted, stupid way. Turns out housing crises are catastrophic for the economy in the long term, and all their selfish policies to jack up the value of their properties has resulted in decades of stagnation and everything (including labor for their precious businesses!) getting so dang expensive.
Likewise, not tackling the climate crisis is going to be devastating for the economy long-term. Basically all economists agree that we need immediate, drastic climate action, else we’ll pay the price 10 times over.
And yet Republicans consistently choose the options that cost them dearly long-term.
Some of that is “starving people will take crumbs and scraps over death” but unfortunately, some of it is “people who hit their family also vote and it turns out they like abusing and controlling those people too”.
they’re INCREDIBLY selective about what they want free market for. Abolish restrictive zoning, parking minimums, and other arbitrary deed restrictions to allow literally anything but suburban sprawl and help alleviate the housing crisis? Nope, the GOP is all about government-mandated sprawl for all!
It’s amazing how many people are so deep into the status-quo that they genuinely don’t realize how much those regulations have shaped everything, instead deluding themselves to think car-dependent single-family hegemony is somehow the “natural” result of the “free market.”
And what’s doubly ironic is they’re INCREDIBLY selective about what they want free market for.
It’s because neoliberals don’t genuinely believe in neoliberalism. If it actually worked as promised even half the time, they’d openly oppose it because they get rich off it’s failure, not it’s success.
It’s just a book of excuses that sound plausible to the average person and keeps their messaging consistent without needing secret, leakable, probably illegal meetings to discuss corporate collusion and managed democracy.
And what’s doubly ironic is they’re INCREDIBLY selective about what they want free market for. Abolish restrictive zoning, parking minimums, and other arbitrary deed restrictions to allow literally anything but suburban sprawl and help alleviate the housing crisis? Nope, the GOP is all about government-mandated sprawl for all! Eliminating child labor laws? Hell yeah, GOP is all about that free market with zero government mandates at all, baby!
It’s so blatantly obvious their whole schtick is just pure, unabashed selfishness. Keep burdensome land use regulations because it inflates their property values (which is profitable to existing landlords and speculators), but reject child labor laws so you can hire cheaper labor.
It’d be one thing if they actually tried to be consistent in support of the free market, but they don’t even try to. As in many things, the GOP has no principles besides profit.
Yeah. If we are talking about the constituents though, it’s funny because they’re actually trying to be selfish but actually most of them hurt themselves too. it’s worth it to them if they hurt enough other people though. A very strange psychology
Definitely. It’s selfish but in a short-sighted, stupid way. Turns out housing crises are catastrophic for the economy in the long term, and all their selfish policies to jack up the value of their properties has resulted in decades of stagnation and everything (including labor for their precious businesses!) getting so dang expensive.
Likewise, not tackling the climate crisis is going to be devastating for the economy long-term. Basically all economists agree that we need immediate, drastic climate action, else we’ll pay the price 10 times over.
And yet Republicans consistently choose the options that cost them dearly long-term.
The “save the children” crowd is awfully keen to let their children and descendants bear the consequences of their decisions…
“Climate change won’t cost me long term.” It’s still selfishness. Fooled them: climate change effects are coming decades earlier than they should have
Some of that is “starving people will take crumbs and scraps over death” but unfortunately, some of it is “people who hit their family also vote and it turns out they like abusing and controlling those people too”.
It’s amazing how many people are so deep into the status-quo that they genuinely don’t realize how much those regulations have shaped everything, instead deluding themselves to think car-dependent single-family hegemony is somehow the “natural” result of the “free market.”
It’s because neoliberals don’t genuinely believe in neoliberalism. If it actually worked as promised even half the time, they’d openly oppose it because they get rich off it’s failure, not it’s success.
It’s just a book of excuses that sound plausible to the average person and keeps their messaging consistent without needing secret, leakable, probably illegal meetings to discuss corporate collusion and managed democracy.