Stossell and those like him keep losing to socialism for one reason: Morality! They refuse to make the moral case, and you cannot beat a moral crusade with a spreadsheet.
Why has John Stossel failed? He says it himself: years spent proving free markets work, and socialists keep winning. He blames bad economics.
But economics was never the battlefield. Everything Stossel says is true, capitalism produces, lifts men from poverty, delivers what government cannot. And none of it will win, because the fight is not about production. It is about the good.
This is the error conservatives and libertarians repeat forever. They argue efficiency while conceding morality. They prove capitalism works, then go silent when it's called selfish, having already granted the socialist's premise: that to live for oneself is immoral.
Capitalism has only one defense: that a man's life is his own, that he exists for his own sake, and his happiness is a right to proclaim, not a sin to excuse.
Say it, and you win. Evade it, and you lose to men with false economics and a bolder claim to virtue.
Tim Pool : I hate free trade
Why? : Because the government makes it hard to do things so businesses have to outsource to other countries.
That’s not free trade doofus. 🤦