Plus, rightwing economics and politics play off a tough guy mentality, which can be appealing, esp. when it's contrasted with being weak and passive, instead of being steady eddie and middle-of-the-road.. . . If billionaires ensconced people in an echo chamber so strong that they think EVERYONE ELSE is biased and funded by billionaires, . . .
You know, I went through my Libertarian Party phase in my twenties. It was a combo of we're not going to put people in jail for drug offenses, a person ought to be able to start a business, and stuff from the platform such as the claim that mandatory school attendance laws created prison-like schools with prison-like problems. It was heady stuff.
It took me a while to wind to the viewpoint that bloated corporate power presented a bigger danger, even with a liberal Republican like Rockefeller and a solidly liberal Democrat like Kennedy. And I still think people ought to be able to start businesses, just things like universal healthcare make it easier to do so! And I like to remind young people that 70% of businesses fail within the first two years. Yes, that's seven out of ten. And heck, this stat used to be 80%.
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