In the US the rhetoric is "free market". But in political practice this means responding to large corporations who often want laws that make if difficult for others to compete with them. Telecoms want to be able to coalesce into an anti-competitive oligopoly. IP holders want to control their rights for longer and longer. Commodity producers like farmers want state subsidies.
Americans love capitalism because it is the best system known to distribute resources. But we need to separate the idea of being pro-capitalism from the idea of being pro-corporate lobbying. They are not always the same.
Americans love capitalism because it is the best system known to distribute resources. But we need to separate the idea of being pro-capitalism from the idea of being pro-corporate lobbying. They are not always the same.