It's pretty funny how libs will invariably do mental gymnastics to pretend that the system doesn't work the way it's very obvious working because admitting that would be admitting that liberal democracy is fundamentally broken.
There is a confluence of reasons really, in addition to state department fear of losing control of the narrative there are also a lot of US tech billionaires who got straight outcompeted in the "free market" and would love for the state to step in and force a sale to them.
Oh go figure the "twisted revelation" is exactly the reason every non lib said it was 2 seconds after hearing the proposal.
It's pretty funny how libs will invariably do mental gymnastics to pretend that the system doesn't work the way it's very obvious working because admitting that would be admitting that liberal democracy is fundamentally broken.
There is a confluence of reasons really, in addition to state department fear of losing control of the narrative there are also a lot of US tech billionaires who got straight outcompeted in the "free market" and would love for the state to step in and force a sale to them.