Theres a country that presently triggers members of the big government crowd. It wont be mentioned here as it might violate some kind of imaginary safe space erected by an ideology that has modernly called for the creation of safe spaces on college campuses.
The big government crowd wants Washington to oversee a decoupling of America from said country. Even though countries dont trade, but profit-motivated businesses do, those who lean toward statism and who are troubled by said country think it best if the federal government forces a break-up. It doesnt matter that private property rights and freedom of economic association have long been a major driver of prosperity in the U.S.; what matters to those triggered by this unnamed country is that government oversee the ending of private economic exchange.
Their excuse for using more government in the U.S. to beat up on a government and economy somewhere else is that the country they disdain is a communist country run by communists. It seems more than a few proponents of muscular government are too young to remember that when actual communists used to run countries, there was never a particular need to oversee an economic decoupling of America from those countries. That was the case simply because those countries run by actual communists were defined by so little production as to not be worth Americas time from an economic perspective.
In this country that proponents of a bigger U.S. federal state want government to wrest American businesses from, American businesses are everywhere. A ride down any street in the countrys cities (it has eight larger than New York City) includes non-stop sightings of McDonalds, Starbucks, Apple, Polo, Nike, and Kentucky Fried Chicken signs; among many others. You see this communist country that those seeking government intervention to pull America out of is presently the largest foreign market for the worlds greatest companies; meaning American companies.
According to those in their safe spaces, the country that U.S. businesses are aggressively investing in and expanding in in order to create profits for voluntary shareholders is full of thieves that are stealing intellectual property (IP) from American businesses unbeknownst to those businesses. The only individuals who know about the theft are those same individuals tucked away in their safe spaces, far from where actual commerce takes place.
Its seemingly never occurred to those comfortably cocooned, but who claim to see clearly what the worlds greatest businesses do not, that anyone even passably aware of which American corporations had the most valuable intellectual property could visit New York City capital allocators on a Monday morning, and have billions to invest by Monday afternoon. Its extraordinarily hard to know what is good or worthless IP, the best businesses would sheepishly admit theyre routinely wrong about what has value, Jeff Bezos admits hes spent many billions on some really bad ideas, but its apparently easy for those triggered by a country that will go nameless to spot whats valuable versus what is worthless. This communist country is stealing valuable IP from America, and these proponents of government meddling in private economic activity want government to do something about it.
The unnamed communist country has a corporation based within it that is the biggest seller of smartphones in the world. The major news outlets reported the latter last week. According to those ensconced in the safest of spaces, said company is a puppet of said countrys communist government, plus the source of its capital is that same communist government. Its fascinating.
The reason why its fascinating is that these loud proponents of government intervention to protect America from this puppet of the state are ignoring what limited government conservatives have always said; that government-run anything is awful; defined by tragically bad service and antiquated products. Limited government ideologues have routinely made the correct point that the Post Office and DMVs that bring on dread in Americans of all stripes are that way precisely because theyre subsidized by government. Why wont the big government crowd listen to small government conservatives about this country and its businesses?
Conservatives have also long made a case that government support weakens its intended beneficiaries precisely because it shields them from the often blunt market signals and stupendous failures that power progress. Its so logical, but dealing with the big government crowd has always been a challenge. There are no shades of gray with those who think government the answer to every presumed problem. As they see it, this communist countrys businesses are absolutely made much more powerful and innovative by government help and guidance. Conservatives might ask those triggered by the unnamed country if maybe the communist bureaucrats from the unnamed country should be invited to the U.S. to fix its healthcare system. Why not? If the government there can create world-class businesses in other fields, unlike any other government in the history of commerce, why not give it a run at U.S. healthcare?
Those who see a role for government in all areas of commerce might agree, at least in theory, but said communist country is also creating innovative businesses that attract copious global investor interest (oddly the opposite of what happened when 20th century communist countries once dotted the global landscape). This is a problem for the expanded government crowd simply because the state is apparently only creating these companies in order to spy on Americans. Recently a globally popular app from this communist country, one that could claim a market cap well into the billions, and that is most famous for its short dance videos, was threatened with a ban by a lover of all things free market U.S. president. Sensing it was about to be mugged, this allegedly communist creation that lefty big government types said was harvesting unnecessary levels of information for the communist countrys government was in talks about entering into an emergency agreement to be acquired by Microsoft.
Why didnt the liberal left listen to conservatives about the matter? Conservatives could have explained to them that a company allegedly harvesting unnecessary levels of information would pay for just that in the marketplace. Sure enough, Facebooks Instagram was rolling out competition for this presumed communist puppet, but the free market U.S. decided to skip the market competition part only to force a communist company operating under a civil-military fusion into the hands of an American company. Liberals cheered the mugging of this commie corporation care of a free market president they normally disagree with, but conservatives could have explained to them that no company this popular could possibly be a creation of the state; thus rendering needless a federal action that a surely left wing editorial page laughably described as the market increasing business competition and solving a political problem at the same time.
Also, we cant forget whats already been discussed; that lefties over the last several years had in overnight fashion made a regular case that this communist country bereft of creativity was stealing ideas and business practices from U.S. companies. So why was this commie business first to a social media concept well ahead of companies in the free market U.S., and why was the free market U.S. federal government essentially forcing a sale (some would call this theft) of this commie business to an American company?
Thinking about all this more broadly, and ignoring how U.S. social media companies thankfully harvest information of users in order to meet the needs of those users better, did it ever occur to the hard left wingers triggered by the success of a surely communist business aiding a communist government to ask what the communist government could possibly want to spy on? Really, the historically free market country has been conducting its own voluntary economic suicide over the last several months; all over a virus. Had they listened to conservatives once again, they would have understood that the virus wasnt terribly threatening, but that even if it had been threatening, the latter would have existed as an even better argument for the free market country to do nothing. Really, what about potential sickness or death requires laws to avoid? Those lefties kept blaming the communist country for having spread the virus to the U.S. in nefarious fashion. Never asked was why, if the commies wanted to bring the U.S. harm, they would design a virus that half didnt know theyd been exposed to, and that largely spared just about everyone exposed to it. Somehow a communist government would feel threatened by a country exceedingly eager to wreck itself over something that most everyone – regardless of age – survives?
Further ignored is that this communist country, quite unlike every other communist country in history, is dense with businesses that generate a huge portion of their sales in America. Yet those dopey liberals claim the communist country wants to destroy its best businesses by destroying America?
Its all very strange. Thats why its best to not bring this communist country up with those glass-jawed lefities. This communist country has taken up enormous space in their heads, and is causing them to retract all that theyve long believed. Theyre sensitive about it, so dont invade their safe spaces. In fact, dont even bring said country up.
But wait, theres been a major. Its actually conservatives who are triggered by and hiding in their safe spaces from reasonable discussion about this communist country. Its conservatives who want muscular government meddling in the global economy and the theft of private businesses hatched in the communist country. Oh dear. Nevermind.read more
Don’t Mention This Country. You’ll Invade Their ‘Safe Space’
