[guelo]

Do you ever stop and wonder why it is that your ideology so closely aligns exactly with everything that the big corps and banks want? You want deregulation just like the big polluters do, you want lower taxes just like the richest want, you want to remove any policing of business activities, guess who doesn't want business activities to be policed? The fantasy that the banking meltdown was caused by Fannie or some laws passed 30 years ago don't even pass the smell test. For some reason you can't imagine that it had anything to do with the banking deregulation passed in 2000. Somehow anything that might benefit the lower and middle class is a threat but we must keep the most powerful on the dole.

By the way you are distancing yourself from "conservatives" I'm guessing you are one of the self-proclaimed libertarians. But as far as the practical economical results it's the same crap, policies that end up making the powerful even more powerful than they are now.

I'm not assuming that you are evil, and I don't have some simplistic view of the world that you are attributing to me. But there are people that are taking advantage of the rest of us and we should be fighting it. We all live in a world flooded by propaganda coming at us from all sides so I always try to give people some leeway when arguing politics, and I try to stay informed on opinions opposed to mine. It is hard to break free from pre-concieved notions.

The liberal vs conservative (or libertarian) debate on economics has been about whether the bigger villain are big corps or big government. But I think what the new realization dawning on millions of people, especially those that thought Obama would fight against the plutocrats, is that they are both part of the same corrupt and broken system. You want to break apart big government, fine, but why don't you also want to break up the big banks and other monopolies?