Dumb Tummy

I could wake up thinking about stories, but instead my brain wants to think about dumb people's ideas of argumentation.

This morning its more dumb free market fundamentalism, the kind that calls anything not sufficiently laissez faire 'socialism' and likes to spout of pointless aphorisms like "all governments fail their people 100% of the time" and "governments are wrong because they use force". Of course, its okay for them to use force when its something the free market fundamentalist approves of.

Anyway, so my brain decides to take a new route, and here's where it eventually got (though this is the tl;dr formulation): Big business spends a lot of money on government, on buying politicians, buying access to politicians, buying lobbyists, etc. so we should view it as free market activity, ie. the government is part of the market. Since the market can't do any wrong, the government can't either. So a free market fundamentalist either needs to deny that business spends money on politics (impossible) or that some market activity is bad.

They'd make protests, which is why my brain iterated through dozens of more complex formulations, but that's basically where it ends up. Free market fundamentalism is stupid.