|

The Witch is Dead! The Witch is Dead!

Here’s a gen­tle fist in the air, ded­i­cated to The Wicked Witch of the Midwest, the man who made it accept­able to say “democ­racy” when you mean “free-market capitalism”.

One sum­mary of his posi­tion on Chile described it as “freer mar­kets led to free peo­ple, and that Chile had an unfree econ­omy, which led to a dic­ta­tor­ship, which then imple­mented open econ­omy poli­cies, and later became polit­i­cally free.” A loose trans­la­tion of that would be “stop fuck­ing with the money and we’ll let you vote, you damned peasants.”

(For the naysay­ers, I’ve seen the movie the sum­mary describes, and the sum­mary is faith­ful to his expressed views.)