Is the liberal idea of a free market, one that gives away free cheese?

[SmartAZ]

If you mean politics, anything can be true if you keep saying it, and nothing is true if you can't be forced to admit it.

If you mean economics, half the people are trained in Keynesian bs and they follow the political advice above. The other half are not trained at all and are quite willing to let the government take over all their responsibilities even though the government has a lousy reputation in that subject. They don't ever want their responsibilities back for any reason.

This all keeps on until it is physically impossible to support the regime any longer. After the crash the people grieve for the glory they used to feel. People still mourn the loss of "the roaring 20s" almost a century ago, even though it directly caused the crash of 29 and the hardships thereafter.