“How can anyone not know this?”
I forget who said something to the effect: “The biggest problem is not ignorance, it’s what people know that isn’t true.” There’s many people in the world—especially in academia—who “know” what you claim is wrong. Don’t ask them to prove this with evidence or even argue it intelligently: propositions that are the exact opposite of the ones you state too often are a shared assumption in many circles.
You can’t expect critical thinking from individuals who can’t or won’t think critically!
100% freedom is chaos.
Conservatism is about ORDERED liberty — not “absolute liberty” or anarchy. “100% freedom” is a mess. Government (which is inherently restrictive of absolute freedom) should be limited, but is necessary.
SnakeDoc
“How can anyone not know this?”
They might, but with respect, you’re asking the wrong question.
The right question is, “Why do they oppose this?”
The answer is, they know that in a free society, they’d have to compete on merit, not cronyism. They would lose their wealth and power. Therefore, they oppose freedom. And they don’t care what’s good for anyone but themselves. (Of course the fallacy here is that when the host dies, so do most of the leeches, but they are all gods in their own minds and think that they’ll come out on top.)
Dimwitted libtards are motivated by feelings and immediate interests and prejudice rather than reason and true interests.
People would rather have safety over liberty.As for financial freedom being generally good for the economy,for the most part that is true.
I still think we did ourselves a disfavor by bailing out the banks moreso then letting them play the sub-prime market.