[HamiltonJay]

Then you know very well then, if you have operated a business for 20 years, that you operate that business within the legal framework set forth. Your leap of logic that legal regulatory frameworks for business equate defacto to Fascism is nonsense.

[Protagoras]

Then you know very well then, if you have operated a business for 20 years, that you operate that business within the legal framework set forth.

At gunpoint only. I am in one of the most heavily regulated businesses in the country. I comply only enough to stay in business.

They have the guns.

[Protagoras]

that legal regulatory frameworks for business equate defacto to Fascism is nonsense.

Strawman. There are degrees, and I explained it. When it crosses over the line, it is fascism. Depite your embracing of it.