Americans are happiest when complaining. Our owners will keep the left/right dispute going and all will we well in our part of the world . . . as long as they let us keep our guns, go to church, and vote for our tax collectors.

To understand the difference between free markets regulated by government to prevent any corporation from having legal dominance over others and to protect the people from unhealthy or otherwise bad products (trade policy can come into play here, and so can governmental agency regulations) and governmentally-favored corporate markets where legislative favoritism allows some businesses dominance over others, even to those others being forced out of business, or where federal agencies work to allow that kind of favoritism, is to realize why the left opposes corporate favoritism, i.e., corporate government, and the right advocates for it through the right’s strong desire to deregulate and allow glaring tax loopholes. Not that those on the left like Robert Rubin, whom I believe is aligned more with Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand than Keynes or Krugman or their devotees, or Max Baucus, well-funded by the healthcare industry, are not responsible, but do note most of the travesty we witnessed this past year should you add up the numbers derives mostly from practices emanating from the right. The left gets it. The right if it does get it further perpetuates it. Any following House and Senate committee meetings can be witness to it. Do note we on
the left already are in play at taking down Dems who support the nonsense that is at the core of our recent downfall. It used to be that those like myself were maligned for stating the obvious. That is no longer the case, except for those mostly on the right who either do get it but support the wrong side of this issue, or never will get it. Again, I say to you, watch what happens to Blue Dog Dems who vote on the wrong side of the healthcare issue. The 2008 election was only the beginning. Healthcare is a continuation that beginning. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Someone published a chart that says there are actually 4 sides of the political spectrum. He measured it by support for economic freedom (EF), and personal freedom (PF). Liberals support PF and oppose EF; Conservatives are the reverse; Libertarians support both (the chart maker is one); Populists oppose both. So Liberals will let you smoke marijuana, but not make a profit sellingit; Conservatives are the reverse; Libertarians will let you do both, Populists neither.
Personally, I’m a combination of Conservative and libertarian. But I’m geting more anarchist as i get older. Forty years ago, Congress passed a “public accomodations” law that let black people get to the front of the bus. Now the same law is being used to throw smokers of all colors and genders off the bus! If you can’t smoke in businesses the govt. regulates, how about on the streets and waterways the govt. owns? The schools they aid directly? The churches they aid indirectly? The colleges whose students get aid? (The Supreme Court has said all these kinds of aid subject these institutions to regulation.) If you can’t smoke on any place the govt. regulates directly or indirectly (and they aid everything), where can you smoke? And since the standards seem to be the same for prayer, where can you pray? If accepting govt. aid means that much govt. control, anarchism looks better and better!