You (conservatives) genuinely believe that lots of individual making choice to best satisfy their own needs work better in large scale systems that any overseeing body trying to lay down strategies or directives. You cannot comprehend the end results of this ideology, and no historical examples, sociological theory or pointing out human nature can convince you otherwise. You still believe that if we left it all to the free market somehow this time, unlike other times, we would not end up with robber barons and oligarchs.

There is the psychodynamic construct called repetition compulsion, individuals and large social groups unconsciously repeat past conflicts in an attempt at mastery, re-creating old, unresolved problems hoping for the potential of a better outcome.

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