Reply #17: Most Corporations, Sir

[The Magistrate]

Donate to both sides; there is no particular signifigance to it. Someone is going to win, after all, and there is no point to making an enemy you do not need to make, from the businessman's view.

What you are really assailing here is the modern conventional wisdom of economics, which holds that "free trade" is the key to national prosperity, and that anything which impedes it is against the economic interest of the country and its people. That view is a false one, but it is the conventional one, and conventional people have conventional views. The strategists of the D.L.C. are nothing if not conventional people, and believe accordingly.