Liberals once feared people like you and me – leftists craving a socialist transformation. When the left was defeated, liberals were relieved but continued to rail against the power of the state: in their eyes, powerful states, even bourgeois liberal ones, are what pave the road to serfdom. Is it not delectably shocking how, in the end, a global superhighway to serfdom has been constructed not because Western states were too powerful but because they were too weak? Too weak, that is, to prevent the cloud capital they birthed from taking over, disestablishing capitalism and facilitating
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