What was the lib’s response?
How soon into your reasoned exposition did her eyes glaze over?
She eventually just gave up. The truth is you can’t really reason with people who hold such irrational views some of which are merely political rhetorical warfare against a perceived enemy not necessarily a real reasoned conviction. Does anyone believe liberals really care about “Mom & Pop” stores in the hinterland? If anything they resent them and their values however their ultimate goal is to get “Mom & Pop” to not think of themselves as independent small businesses but instead as dependents to govt through anticompetitive policies which ultimately hurt the community as a whole as well as ambituous Mom & Pop small businesses. Anticompetitive policies inevitably cause a decrease in business agility and slows expansion and cements the govt as the arbiter of who wins or loses rather than letting the inherent success of the business stand or fall in relationship to its customers.