# Well-intentioned ideas that won't work in real life: green grocer liberalism

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**Created:** [June 10, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-intentioned-ideas-that-wont-work-in-real-life-green-grocer-liberalism/624728 "2012-06-10T15:17:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-intentioned-ideas-that-wont-work-in-real-life-green-grocer-liberalism/624728/8 "2012-06-10T15:41:58Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> But in both the Obama administration’s green grocer plan and Bloomberg’s no big soda plan, I see the same impulse: we know what’s best, so do it.
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> I don’t want my government to have that attitude.

I don’t think you can say that encouraging something derives from the same impulse (do it) as banning something.

And surely you know that Conservatives are just as enamored by the power to ban things they don’t like: Pornography, drugs, flag burning…

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