Government is fundamental to the wealth of nations.

The state provides rule of law, property rights and security.

Without them, capitalism cannot thrive.

There has never been a sustained and prosperous economy without good government underpinning it.

Free markets failed to provision the US military industrial combine with a reliable supply of the refined rare earths essential to its functioning.

Too many people swallowed the neoliberal voodoo economics mumbo jumbo and as a result the US industrial sector and infrastructure are tragically decimated while China now controls multiple strategic supply chains.

The joke is on the neoliberal-libertarian ideologs who precipitated this with their naive, dangerous and deluded dogma.