“How can anyone not know this?”
They might, but with respect, you’re asking the wrong question.
The right question is, “Why do they oppose this?”
The answer is, they know that in a free society, they’d have to compete on merit, not cronyism. They would lose their wealth and power. Therefore, they oppose freedom. And they don’t care what’s good for anyone but themselves. (Of course the fallacy here is that when the host dies, so do most of the leeches, but they are all gods in their own minds and think that they’ll come out on top.)
Good point! :-) People everywhere mostly KNOW freedom is the definitive political answer for everyone’s best economic and socio-personal life. But personal corruption, and a desire to get something for nothing, and a secret wish to hurt innocent others, lets many folks come out in favor of some sort of semi-tyrannical, Welfare State gibberish.