The Future of Everything

The Future of Everything

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How Elon Musk exposed himself and every other right wing free-speech pontificator as a big, fat hypocrite

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Tim Dunlop
Dec 19, 2022
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One of the keys to the success of right-of-centre politics over the last couple of decades has been their ability to equate their side of politics with the concept of freedom and the left with a “nanny state” control of people’s lives.

Free markets were meant to be the key to free societies. Get rid of regulation, reduce government interference, and human ingenuity will flourish and wealth will grow. Yes, there might be a rise in inequality, but the cream will rise to the top and then we will all benefit as wealth begins to trickle down. Government isn’t the answer, it’s the problem, Ronald Reagan said, while lobbyist and Republican Party Svengali, Grover Norquist, famously said, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”

All of this went hand-in-hand with the counter claim, tha…

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