You might think that persnickety “coffee” order only impacts the customer and likely only slightly irritates the barista that has to make it but you are wrong. This person and millions like them bring these demands into the marketplace. These are the loudmouths that spew ill-informed political rhetoric to their equally uninformed network. They know nothing of economic theory, capitalism (the kind in books isn’t the kind you can actually implement in a democracy) and likely aren’t interested in the work of William Riker and his fellow equilibria theorists in a very partial branch of political science called Public Choice. "Public choice rejects the construction of organic decision-making units, such as “the people,” “the community,” or “society.” Groups do not make choices; only individuals do. The problem then becomes how to model the ways in which the diverse and often conflicting preferences of self-interested individuals get expressed and collated when decisions are made collectively." Go vote while you still have time. There is a binary choice this go around--democracy with fair and free elections or not-democracy. “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself” (Federalist, no. 51)
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