People, generally with legitimate grievances, forget too easily that the "crony" of "crony capitalism" indicates an intimate bond, and with whom that bond is implied.
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My issue with socialism as a response to crony capitalism is pretty simply that I don't trust institutions that misuse their power already to do less of that when they have more of it
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This can be said of both the corporate interests and the government entities that have engaged in this, but only one of these can compel your cooperation via threat of property confiscation, imprisonment or death, and I think that's a pretty good reason to empower it cautiously
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FWIW, I have a pretty good opinion of someone like Bernie Sanders, who I genuinely believe is motivated by an admirable vision and would be extremely difficult to buy out personally. But I don't think he understands power well enough to avoid being ultimately sidelined by it
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The point is that the rapid expansion of government power he proposes is only *not* an absolutely terrible thing as long as it doesn't become the apparatus of self-interested entities. It's almost certainly a much worse situation than the status quo it he's successfully sidelined
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"Restrained small government conservative" is not anywhere near the top of the list of most relevant features of Trump. I don't agree with most conservatives re: exactly how restrained government should be anyway, but for me that factor has little to do with not voting for Trump
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