A consequence of this observation is that we should expect Marxists, who believe the free market doesn’t work, to lie much more often than capitalists, who think it does. Empirically, however, Democrats seem to lie much less than Republicans (see, e.g., a recent NY Times report on PolitiFact checking of the Presidential candidates), even though Republicans have much more faith in the free market.
This is an extremely terrible proxy for the question you’re interested in.
Don’t be distracted by the question of whether Democrats are Marxist. That’s not the issue. My implication was that a survey would show much greater faith in the free market among Republicans than among Democrats. I expect that’s true.
Politics is the mindkiller. Don’t use highly political examples where people are likely to disagree with you when you don’t want to talk about them because they draw themselves into attention.
This is an extremely terrible proxy for the question you’re interested in.
Don’t be distracted by the question of whether Democrats are Marxist. That’s not the issue. My implication was that a survey would show much greater faith in the free market among Republicans than among Democrats. I expect that’s true.
Politics is the mindkiller. Don’t use highly political examples where people are likely to disagree with you when you don’t want to talk about them because they draw themselves into attention.
Politics is the mindkiller, but I have no other data on that point.
I couldn’t help but be distracted, sorry.
I should have written it in a less distracting way. I shouldn’t have expected people to treat it as a non-political example.