From what I have seen of your arguments, you are are neither for a free market, nor a conservative.
On the free market, Reagan rejected your definition of market freedom, as he astutely recognized the games foreign adversaries played, hence he DEMANDED bilateral fairness when dealing with the stacked decks they set up. Reagan also recognized that small American manufacturers...the very fount of creativity, needed special warding against foreign governmental monopoly attacks.
He would have been especially dubious of the freedom of international markets dominated by a communist tyranny such as China. Why do you think he was so zealous at strangling the Soviet's from our capital and technology?
Nor are you particularly conservative since you don't seem to care a wit about national defense, let alone our industrial capacity to sustain it.
From what I have seen of your arguments, you are are neither for a free market, nor a conservative.
I am a supply-side, pro-free-market, liberal (in the classic sense), conservative. And it terrifies you.
On the free market, Reagan rejected your definition of market freedom, as he astutely recognized the games foreign adversaries played, hence he DEMANDED bilateral fairness when dealing with the stacked decks they set up. Reagan also recognized that small American manufacturers...the very fount of creativity, needed special warding against foreign governmental monopoly attacks.
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.
--Ronald Reagan, September 29, 1981