Mark Small

Ltd gov’t: 1800s saw really wealthy white men enjoy freedom in business a/k/a “laissez-faire.” “[French ‘let (people) do (as they choose))’ Governmental abstention from interfering in economic or commercial affairs” Black’s, 2014, p. 1007. 4/23

Ltd gov’t not “always” better, as Spartz maintains. “always - every time; on every occasion; without exception” Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed., 2001, p.62. Laissez-faire gave us horrendous pollution, child labor & oppression. 5/23

GOP Pres Theodore Roosevelt helped impose more gov’t on corporations. In the 1970s, another GOP Pres, Richard Nixon, signed into law acts that created the EPA and helped to clean the country’s air and water. 6/23

Because Spartz says “financial and healthcare decisions should be made by individuals in the free market, not bureaucrats and special interests,” I infer she plans to quit GOP, & soon. We have “death panels” - but controlled by oligopolies of insurance corporations. 7/23

Current occupant of the Oval Office (a/k/a dt) has gamed the system and poured tons of money into the pockets of family members and pals. A “bureaucrat” can be in either public or private spheres. dt has them in both. 8/23

A “special-interest group” is an “organization that seeks to influence legislation or government policy in favor of a particular interest or issue” Black’s, p. 936. Under dt our government has expanded groups it treats as “special.” 9/23

Large corporations - domestic & foreign - and hate groups - you name ‘em! - enjoy greater latitude under this administration. Of course, Spartz doesn’t really reject spl interest groups or bureaucrats. She simply uses terms at which trump supporters salivate. 10/23

Spartz dangles magic “socialism” word before dt’s supporters’ eyes as validation of her views: “in socialist-controlled Ukraine, she experienced firsthand the dark side of socialism.” She need only use, not define, “socialism.” 11/23