[ExI] Immaculate Election

Anton Sherwood bronto at pobox.com
Thu Jan 14 21:00:40 UTC 2021


Spike:
 >>> Eh, I can’t see anything in the modern conservative’s agenda
 >>> which requires authoritarianism.

Anton:
 >> Well there's the campaign to shut down immigration
 >> and foreign trade.

Spike:
 > Oh, OK I interpreted authoritarianism as having to do with control
 > of US citizens.  What do modern conservatives have on that?

You can't prevent US citizens from buying foreign goods or hiring 
foreign labor without constraining the activities of US citizens.

 > Anton the two areas you outlined are trade protectionism, which
 > doesn't really have a clear left/right split from what I can tell.

The red hat brigade seem to think it has.

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