They look at a grocery store with 47 kinds of milk and prices that actually move when demand moves, and their brain shorts out. “But who decided this? Where is the plan? Who authorized the extra yogurt??”
Same people look at a functioning legal system and have the identical seizure. They think justice is a commissar with a rubber stamp deciding, case by case, who is guilty this week and what the sentence should be. They want the Party to write the law, interpret the law, and apply the law in the same afternoon meeting. Then they act shocked when the result is “telephone justice,” show trials, and whoever has the right last name walking free while the other guy gets ten years for the same thing.
Markets don’t need a wheat quota committee. Courts don’t need a political officer to tell them what “fair” means today. Both work by general rules that apply to everyone, not by some official’s mood and connections. That’s the part they can’t stand: no one is in charge of the bread and no one is in charge of the verdict. Just rules, prices, evidence, and consequences.
But sure, let’s put the same people who couldn’t stock a bakery and couldn’t run an honest courtroom in charge of everything else. What could go wrong.
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