Do free-market advocates really want to stop people from being disadvantaged?

[MMMark]

Saturday, May 12, 2012 23:36 EDT
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@John James

[/url]The question asked was: “How exactly is it that conservatives want to stop people from being disadvantaged? What evidence is there that conservatives have done anything to stop anyone from being disadvantaged?”

I want to hear ideas on some responses that might actually get a person who would ask that kind of thing to think.

I’d first try to find out what the questioner means by “conservatives.” Who does the questioner think of when he hears the word “conservatives”? Depending on which people the questioner thinks of, one answer to his question might be “There is no evidence that conservatives have done anything to stop anyone from being disadvantaged.”

To “get the person to think,” one thing I’d try is to point out that frequently, what is called “conservative” is the opposite of “free markets.”