'Copious' links ... seriously ?
More typically, you spend your time on abusive (and diversionary) rewrites and misrepresentations of my 'quoted' postings ...
If, above, you're referring to my failure to provide a link (a clear statement of evidence) between the Libertarian Movement and Trade Unions, can I point out that you, in turn, have failed to do the same to prove beyond doubt that a pencil is a pencil ?? I actually HAVE asked you to ...
It's highly relevant that you do so. It must be. Because, you see, Libertarians and Trade Unions are THE SAME. Just as a pencil is the same as .. a pencil.
Compare what it is that a Trade Unionist claims he'd be fighting for, with what Libertarians say they want. Consider particularly the record British Trade Unions have in taking on Governments, with a view to defying and diminishing their power (even to outright nonexistence, as happened in February 1974), and their insistence upon shrugging off any and all strictures Governments would seek to apply to them ?
Margaret Thatcher was no Libertarian (... yet, you seem to be ??). She fought the Unions, she did so effectively, and through by far the most effective means available to her .. THE POWER OF THE STATE.
A pointless question. Why ask it ? You've never been in the position of trying to.
.. See, there's the flaw in your 'reasoning', right there.
You refuse to see that 'big Government' solutions can be, or ever are,
Conservative ones. That is your big mistake.
Anyone claiming that I fight for big Government, because I want big Government, is misrepresenting my viewpoint. I, along with other Conservatives, much prefer small Government, with the individual taking as much responsibility for his or her own life and destiny as is possible. THAT SAID .... there are times, in life, when only a big Government solution will do.
Whether or not you like or dislike that is irrelevant. It happens to be the
truth. Deal with it.
A true Conservative is not so completely enslaved to dogma that realism cannot be accommodated when necessary. It's one of the things separating us from Lefties .. Lefties are all about only recognising their insisted-upon worldview as valid. No .. sometimes, the power of the State just has to intervene.
I'm sure this was what drove Reagan during those examples you cite. Equally, in the UK, Trade Union reform via State legislation was .. simply .. NECESSARY. The alternative would've been a wrecked economy and a basket-case of a trading base.
Consider the response necessary to 9/11, by the way. What ELSE but a 'big Government' approach could have possibly served ???
One of the chief things marking you out as a Leftie, FJ, is how completely wedded you are to dogma.
You CANNOT move past it. You cannot approach issues with realism guiding you,
just as a Leftie can't. Lefties have their worldview, which they insist upon, come-what-may .. didn't Stalin have his five year plans ?
But Conservatives, in power, have to be different. It isn't lacking in Conservatism to apply whatever solutions best fix a problem ! Only a Leftie mind would absolutely insist that narrow dogma must never,
ever, be deviated from by even a fraction of an inch.
Congratulations in recognising that, FJ. Perhaps there's hope for you yet.
BUT WASN'T IT THEIR PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO PROBLEMS, THEIR PRAGMATISM, THAT HELPED MAKE THAT TRUE ??