I think you're a little too overawed by tinhorn authority figures, TB. Funny: The only power bureaucrats have is the power of the Rulebook, so maybe a Conservative would find that more intimidating than I do. My experience has been is that a Rulebook can be made to cut both ways, if you have the nerve to fight back. You should try it some time; you might shake your fear of bureaucrats.

Besides, you need to connect the dots of your own rhetoric. One the one hand you portray government as flabby, inefficient and ineffectual; while corporations are all lean mean fighting machines who would sweep all before them, if only government got out of the way. Seems to me you're identifying Big Business as the greater threat, while acknowledging that the power of government, such as it is, is all that keeps them in check. Sounds reasonable to me.

So you think I'm projecting my own views onto the Founders? I notice that you didn't actually dispute my assessment of their values and beliefs, only fired off some chaff about projection. If the American Revolution wasn't all about smashing the power held by a small number of aristocrats and dispersing that power out to the people, then what, pray tell, did we fight it for? To mint a new breed of modern aristocrat that inherits power through a trust fund instead of a hereditary title? Did we spend the last two centuries building America only to have it liquidated by Big Business as they cash out and move on to greener pastures? You think the Founders would have anything but contempt for today's fixation on profit to the exclusion of all else, including loyalty to America and Americans?

Tell me otherwise, Tom. This I gotta hear.