Similarly, I'm just a bit old-fashioned about things like child labor laws. I don't have a problem with the nanny state keeping kids out of factories, where they used to work twelve-hour shifts. Yes, it's an intrusion on the freedom of the magical marketplace, but I'm okay with that.
Indeed, maybe it's the knee-jerk Trotskyism in me, but I like the idea of the government making sure that working conditions are safe for all workers.
I like the government mandating a forty hour work week.
I like the government requiring that the cars and airplanes I ride in are safe.
I want the government to make sure that industries don't pollute the land and air and water we all share, padding their profits through environmental destruction.
I know, I know. It's weird. But somehow I think that's a better country than the one my regressive friends have in mind.
Speaking of whom...
Liars? Delusional? Petrified? Hypocritical? Idiotic?
I guess it is all of the above, after all. Petrified and delusional regressives tell massive lies about supposed freedom that are riddled with idiotic hypocrisy.
I hope they'll forgive me for choosing my big-city, left-wing, European socialist, liberal slavery, radical vision of the good life over theirs.
After all, it goes better with my government-restricted, nanny-state regulated, mandatory latte.
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