Let me be your ruler
You can call me queen bee
And baby I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule
Let me live that fantasy
--Lorde
Jacob Hornberger observes the hypocrisy among conservatives. This group frequently claims that it supports free markets, private property, and limited government. Yet, conservatives usually act in favor of market intervention.
The immigration issue demonstrates this. Conservatives favor immigration controls. Immigration controls oppose free market principles.
As JH notes, immigration controls exemplify socialist central planning. Under immigration socialism, bureaucrats plan the number of permissible immigrants into a country, their qualifications, and other criteria.
Hayek labeled the bureaucratic belief that planners possess the knowledge and expertise to forcibly control the lives of others for the better as "the fatal conceit."
Their support of immigration socialism demonstrates that conservatives possess this fatal conceit.
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To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
~Friedrich August von Hayek
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