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"Is your freemarket ideology a cult?"

LOL! You hit the nail on the head! For a lot of these guys, freetrade is like some kind of fundementalist religion, instead of a theory of how markets behave efficiently when there isn't any "fine print" involved.

Instead of considering a system of completely Free Trade as a goal that might be achieved sometime down the road (like "Free Energy, World Peace, eradication of all human disease, and interplanetary space travel), they insist that we all grab a glass of Kool-Aide and chant the vitues of Free Trade with evangelical fervor.

instead of a theory of how markets behave efficiently when there isn't any "fine print" involved.

Do we trade more now, or before NAFTA? Which nations have a higher standard of living? Those that trade a lot or those that trade very little?

LOL! You hit the nail on the head! For a lot of these guys, freetrade is like some kind of fundementalist religion, instead of a theory of how markets behave efficiently when there isn't any "fine print" involved.

Instead of considering a system of completely Free Trade as a goal that might be achieved sometime down the road (like "Free Energy, World Peace, eradication of all human disease, and interplanetary space travel), they insist that we all grab a glass of Kool-Aide and chant the vitues of Free Trade with evangelical fervor.

That's my take on it, it is like a religion and way of life to them, reminds me of the Ferengi ("Greetings Hooman!!") from Star Trek, the Next Generation where they had their Rules of Aquistion and the "Grand Nagus." At least the Revered Ike back in the 1970's was more honest about his religion worshipping money or at least the aquisition of money was a huge part of it.