One suspects that the conservatives of left and right don t much like the mass and its badly informed preferences. Let us take care of you,

One suspects that the conservatives of left and right don t much like the mass and its badly informed preferences. Let us take care of you, they cry. Let tradition celebrated by wise elders, or planning implemented by wise experts, guide you, oh you sadly misled mass. The ruling lords and the monopolists view the clerisy s conservative theorizing with delight, resting assured that the elders and the planners will inadvertently shield their rents.

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Deirdre McCloskey