Why does a democratic republic founded in opposition to monarchy tolerate billionaires?
Why does a democratic republic founded in opposition to monarchy tolerate billionaires?
In Thursday's post, I imagined a world in which conservatives placed equality at the center of their sensibilities. It was fun, though hardly realistic. As one reader said, conservatives never do that. If they did, they'd be liberals. But the goal of the exercise was less practical than imaginative....
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