"You empower workers by making it so the corporation is not all powerful, and they only got all powerful because of government largesse." (probably not wrong, just saying there was at least an argument in 1850).

Something like that. The only reason you could get the Corporate Plantations of the old 1870's mining towns that controlled all business was because the US was pushing to develop coal as a national security resource for military action and industrial power, so the Feds & the State of West Virginia did everything in their power to subsidize coal development artificially, and then to protect the corporations on top of that.

Had the coal industry developed more naturally, you'd never get Mining Towns because such things would have been far to expensive to even consider building in the first place, and you would have had a more thorough economic development, involving smaller mines, more infrastructure, more subsidiary businesses, and decentralized town development. Towns would have developed to support mines and other industries within the region, rather than towns being constructed solely for the purposes of the mines.

Instead, the Corporate Plantation system creates a debt-based form of slavery (ala the song "16 tons"), and then you get the Coal Wars coming out from both Leftist revolutionary agitation along with over-zealous corporate power, and a government seeking to protect it's focus on a national security commodity.

Jeez, and this is what people blame Thatcher for?

Absolutely. "Thatcher stole jobs from Scotland and killed Coal in Wales" is the normal narrative in Britain. This perspective is effectively unheard of.

Even among Economic Liberals, many will still say that how Thatcher conducted the economy was wrong because she was too hands-off and too many coal workers lost their jobs when she cut programs and subsidies.

The way I look at it, Thatcher talked a good talk, but she wasn't any more Economically Liberal than basically JFK. She cut programs, and didn't make too many deals with the unions, and lowered taxes, and got a bunch of growth and development out of it. But, she was by no means the type of person to do anything I would push for. She created a bunch of government programs that created low-tax zones in certain areas, rather than just lowering taxes across the board. She never really gave up on government intervention in the economy, she just loosened the reigns a bit.

She acted like she'd operate the country with Milton Friedman as her economic advisor. The British press treated her like she was a lunatic, far-right, Austrian Economist, or a slave to Corporate power. In reality, she just liberalized the economy away from the absolute Socialist shithole that the Labour party had turned the country into.

The problem I see here is that they are going to kick, scream, bite, and do anything they can to try and get you voted back out the first chance they get, especially if you try to touch their precious gibs.

Yeah, that's why you can't be a fucking pussy, and you gotta go hard on day fucking 1.

"Welcome to Day 1. The payroll, property, and sales taxes are hearby suspended. These taxes will no longer be collected by my government. Anyone who has refused to pay these taxes will be hereby pardoned. Specific names will be announced shortly. Program cuts will now be made since the people will be able to keep their money. They will fund programs by requesting services from private providers."

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

"Welcome to Day 2. The attempt on my life has left me scared and deformed. However, it has not changed my unwavering desire to see our glorious final victory against the Communist hordes. As such, we have re-organized the Galactic Republic in to the 1st Libertarian Order of Ancapistan."

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

You'll get 2-4 years for the situation to normalize and prosper. After the Great Fire of London, the city was rebuilt in about 3. Same thing after the Tulsa Race Riot. You have to ensure that economic growth is faster than the political blowback against you.

Then you can go for the re-election. Even if you lose, you will have disrupted the Leftist organizational capacity so severely, that it will take them a great deal of time to re-structure it. That's why after Day 1, you need to start selling computers, demolishing government buildings, selling government property, and cancelling government contracts.

I knew she was reelected, but I hadnt known that she utterly smote her Dem challenger to the ground, winning 64%-34%. Considering Omaha usually votes Blue for federal level stuff, I wonder if this is just more evidence of a coming shift in 2022 and 2024.

This is basically indicative of my entire argument. You've got to assert human freedom very aggressively, and very early. The consequences for that will be good in the long run as people might not truly understand why things went well from a large macro-economic / socio-political perspective. But on the ground they'll be putting 2 & 2 together and seeing that your policy about this, had a very positive effect on that, and they'll see that you're responsible for their prosperity by having loosened the reigns and allowed them to succeed.