The Soviet Union had "commercial laws and regulations." So did Nazi Germany. The key is what those laws are, what they do, and to what extent they attempt to control an economy down to the last miserable flush toilet. At some point, it's just about the power.
There are laws to keep me from running red lights and going 100 miles per hour. Okay. So far, there aren't laws telling me how many miles I can drive in a week, how many cars I can own and what kind, or what color the car should be. But I have seen proposals in all of these areas by "progressives" who believe that nothing in existence should be beyond state power. For the good of everyone, of course.
Everything is a matter of degree, and we went past the reasonable point years ago. I have put forth examples in recent months of various government intrusions into our lives at the most ridiculous micromanaged levels, and the liberal response has been "brilliant! More!"
"Totalitarianism" has a definition, and it doesn't require gulags or storm troopers.
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