This is quite Ironic as we saw on the previous omakes and posts that FMP is second only to IF in backwardsness but now that more and more of it is favoring Yellow Zoners instead
it helps that a bunch of the developmentalists are in favour of a free market too. Even the socialists want capitalism. They just want laws and restrictions as well to protect people.
Because, that's what most forms of moderate socialism boil down to.
The 'west' is largely comprised of capitalist democracies. Which contains two fundamentally opposing ideas which nonetheless normally coincide together. Capitalism believes that those who are smarter, make healthier, more successful businesses deserve to be rewarded. That, put simply, some people who work 'harder' are 'worth more'.
Democracy on the other hand is built on the underlying principle of 'one person one vote' Which people get to vote has admittedly sometimes been contested. But, in modern times, as a rough baseline. Every voter is assumed to be roughly 'equal' and whichever politician gets the most votes, has the duty of putting their stated policies into practice.
You see the contradiction. 'Everyone is equal' slams head first into 'harder workers deserve more'. Socialism tries to reconcile the two by enacting laws and policies to try to ensure that the lower classes aren't left to starve or priced out of home ownership or medical care. While also allowing capitalism the chance to succeed, but
not at the expense of everyone else.
Because capitalism. left unchecked, will lead to monopolies and more important those monopolies abusing the position of power they have, pricing out competitors and cost saving by making sub-standard products or by firing workers to save on wages. Acts, which are, ironically, enough, anti-capitalist as it disrupts the freedom of labour and the freedom of the market once a single business entity has enough power to hold the market to ransom.
But why even permit capitalism? because, when it has good ideas it is excellent at generating wealth. (not necessarily sharing it) The problem is, the government should be able to more evenly redistribute and share that wealth fairly as needed and preventing the markets from engaging in rent seeking behaviours, which extract wealth from the markets unfairly while not actually adding things of benefit to the economy.
Rent seeking literally being... rather than building a house and selling it at a profit, or renting it out. To buy up already existing housing stock, and rent it out. You've created nothing new, and are often disproportionately gathering wealth from the market.
tldr: Capitalism and democracy both good. Socialism attempts to take the best parts of both and curb the weaknesses of either.
Edit: Back to the original point. FMP are now turning towards yellow zoners and relaxing their bigotry as, it turns out, the yellow zoners want the chance for better goods or to be able to own their own businesses too. And rather than leaving those votes to be picked up by UYL or socialists or developmentalists, they're attempting to gather voters themselves. Those who are more racist against yellow zoners can and will just leave them for the IF, but at least parts of the free market party are gambling the increase in yellow zoners will make up for that.
