It's notable, but not surprising, that the most vocal defenders of lockdowns, travel restrictions, vaccine passports, and other harsh measures are academics, public officials, and others safe in their jobs, who can work remotely, or aren't impacted by the measure they support.
Those who have been out of work without pay for months on end don't have the time to debate on Twitter the pros and cons of ending restrictions. They just want to be able to find a job and get back to work.
Politicians enact (illegal) eviction moratoriums as if landlords don't exist. They don't care that their policies to help some people are hurting others. And then when that problem becomes too difficult to hide, they'll propose something new to fix the problem they just created.
Along the way, this compounding problem of regulation and intervention somehow gets blamed on greedy capitalism, as if the free market is somehow responsible for the horrific results of massive government intervention. It's political gaslighting.
The world is so much clearer when you abandon the tired left/right paradigm and instead use the Nock/Rothbard lens of state power vs. social power. It's not Democrats vs. Republicans or Progressives vs. Conservatives. Rather it's authoritarians vs. (broadly) libertarians.
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