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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Thomas Sowell's book, "A Conflict of Visions" https://www.amazon.com/Conflict-Visions-Ideological-Political-Struggles/dp/0465002056 offers a more complete view of the issue than the simple Liberal/conservative labels in common usage. I don't know how many of his books you've read, but he is deeper than that.

Here's a well written review. Obviously different reviewers will have different takes on it. https://www.aei.org/economics/review-thomas-sowells-a-conflict-of-visions/

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Chris Fox's avatar

That’s better than I expected from AEI and I almost stopped reading when the writer went into that “market” crap, but he wasn’t as doctrinaire as I was expecting.

I think economics is mostly pseudoscientific bunk and market forces are pure religion, and I walk out of any discussion that turns to supply and demand.

I’d love to believe that human unity is achievable but I can’t.

I believe we will become extinct before people alive today die of old age, maybe before I do, the only question is how much of the natural kingdom we take with us. And what will kill us is conservatives.

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