There's a test I take when I get my eyes checked. I look into a machine, straight at a red dot in the center of a white field of view. Little flickers of light appear at various points in the white field and I push a button if I see them. It shows if I have blind spots, other than the natural one.

A number of posts I've made, and the responses they've gotten, have indicated to me that many Americans have no perceptible boundaries at all any more between government control of an industry and private control. Notice how many responses are along the lines of "so what? If one company bought out another one, what would be different?"

To them, having the Federal government take over an automobile company and begin running it is no different than if Ford had merged with GM and reorganized it.

A blind spot, of sorts. I suspect it's been carefully cultivated in our culture and educational system.