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Re:The Return of the Utopians by rayiner on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:19AM (#12650221)
> Correspondingly, we also need to consider the degree to which, while we don't live in Friedrich von Hayek's or Milton Friedman's ideal society, their ideas now exercise far, far more influence over our society than they did at the inauguration of the Mont Pelerin Society[2].

This is very true. It's a very interesting exercise to go back and read old copies of the Congressional Reports and compare them to ones from today. Back in the 1940s, Republicans would say things as lip service to prevailing views about labor that democrats wouldn't say today. Big sweeping appeals to the public interest in the way today people make narrow pointed arguments about efficiency and cost-benefit analysis.

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Re:The Return of the Utopians by ArkyBeagle on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:36AM (#12651883)
Surprisingly, the "American Experience" bio of George HW Bush does a workman's job of explaining this. But it was really the demise of Nelson Rockefeller that ended the Liberal and Moderate Republican as a thing. After all, he was divorced.

Topologically, the Left pulled farther and faster, and there was also a reaction to that.

Industry became fragmented, and that's much harder to organize into unions. It was different when there were a small number of large monolithic firms.

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