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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald meet Ron Paul [View all]Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)I think you are probably right that a laissez-faire system would probably turn into a crony capitalist system, but someone like a Ron Paul would probably fight like hell to stop that from happening. He would probably lose the battle eventually because not everyone is a laissez-faire ideologue like he is, but that does not mean he supports crony capitalism it just means that he supports an ideology that would eventually result in people who hold a different ideology getting their way.
As far as what you say in your paragraph however, in that regard I think Ron Paul is likely even worse than you think. Ron Paul does not talk about monopolies much, but he knows what you say is true and he doesn't care. Laissez-faire proponents may occasionaly try to downplay the threat of monopolies, but they are absolutely opposed to doing anything to stop them as they would much rather have monopolies than any sort of government regulation.