Market Fundamentalism
Comment: I am a proponent of Space Solar Power by way of lunar resources as the solution to Climate Change, which, trust me, is not as crazy as it sounds. If you want to find people demonizing government, the perfect example of this is, sadly, popular space exploration forums, which have largely been hijacked by Elon Musk fanboys. I have been banned from most of them for years because they have zero tolerance for anyone not in their Ayn-Rand-in-Space cult. I would encourage all progressives to spread the word and visit these forums, SpaceNews and The Space Review, are two of the worst, and comment. See what happens. Elon said years ago that space solar power is, “the stupidest idea ever” and disagreeing made me public enemy. Tell them Gary Church sent you.
“If you were living in Europe in the 1930’s, there is this really difficult political situation where on the one hand- you have the rise of fascism across much of Europe, but you also have the rise of soviet-style totalitarianism in Russia and what becomes the East Bloc, and neither of those is very attractive or appealing. So, it is a bit of a challenge to think about what you think is the worst threat.”
America had a mixed economy, with a strictly controlled and highly taxed capitalism backed-up with social safety programs and maintained with a functioning democracy. This resulted in the wealthiest middle class in history and all that money in the hands of the many was the target of the wealthiest few, who can never satisfy their absolute greed. The Reagan Revolution, and the recent Trump tax cut, has turned that around and now the wealthiest few are fantastically rich beyond their previous wildest dreams.
“Trump, he just realized, like, this is what we have been building towards, where, I am the King because God said so.”
Ice on the Moon 