Monopolies, Progressives and Talking Out of Both SIdes of One's Mouth

When one hears a person railing on and on about monopolies, big corporations, etc., isn't it a given the one doing the lamenting is of the leftward persuasion? Who is it who spends their days fantasizing of the evils of Wal-Mart, big oil and all the other usual suspects? Yet these same people will then argue for the power, centralization and control of unions. What of the choice of the worker? Does giving over one's autonomy to unions sound like keeping choice for themselves?

When someone laments the loss of mom and pop stores, we hear how it's bad to limit choices. We are told more choices are better. When a Republican goes and runs as an independent a lefty will inform us more choice is better, yet when a Democrat goes independent we are told they are a traitor to the cause trying to dilute progressive power.

So how then does the following juxtapose itself: big anything is bad. Big corporate America is monopolistic and therefore somehow dangerous, a lefty will inform one. It limits choices and all that, right?

Yet the progressive wish is for government to be all powerful. The progressive wish list is all about taking the freedom of a plethora of choices from individuals, cause as Cass Sunstein says "We all have a little Homer Simpson in us," meaning if left to our own devices and our bevy of choices, we we'll chose the wrong thing. Progressives are therefore clearly trying to narrow the options available to individuals, cause ya know, we just can't be trusted. Too confusing as Obama has informed us. Too much information to weed through, right Barack? We need to be "Dragged kicking and screaming," right?

How can progressives scream for more choices and the evil of big corporate America and then tell us we must place all our eggs in the government basket? Isn't that the epitome of limiting our choice? Isn't government a monopoly? Damn sure is! Government is the biggest monopoly of all, yet lefties to seem to have no philosophical problems with it. How?

How is it better to give over our Constitutionally guaranteed autonomy to government? How does this concept align with the "more choices are better" mantra of progressives? Isn't government the largest and most insular of all monopolies? Isn't it the most powerful?

Wal-Mart cannot deny me my freedom. Wal-Mart can't confiscate my home, my money or my autonomy. Wal-Mart cannot order me held without bail. If I don't like Wal-Mart I can go to Target, K-Mart or the mall, or of course the mom and pop shops all over Hell's half acre. But if government sets out to deny me freedom of choice or assembly, worship, speech, etc., to whom do I appeal? What are my options? If I don't like the way Wal-Mart does me I can tell 'em to stuff it and hit Target...If DC decides I need to be corrected, I am at their mercy. Isn't this plainly obvious?

If I don't like Anthem Blue Cross, I can go to United Health, Kaiser or many other smaller medical insurance providers. If I don't like Wal-Mart's prices or their manner of doing business with me I can go elsewhere. If one does not like something government does, what choice have they? NONE!

So my dear lefty, progressive mouthpiece, riddle me this one. Explain how you can rail on and on about big "anything" and then tell me all powerful, thus totally despotic government is the answer.

I don't want government health care. I don't want government retirement. I don't want government to provide me anything except national defense, infrastructure, trade regulation, state's arbitration and civil services of police and fire. Notice how if all is as it should be, one's contact with Federal government is almost non-existent?

I have been into a Federal facility once or twice in the last 20 years ---- tops! Yet when I renew my concealed weapons permit I go to my county Circuit Court. I get my license to drive and car registration from the state - the much loved DMV. (as a sidebar, the horrors of the "DMV" do not exist in VA...we have without doubt the most streamlined and efficient DMV in the US, and I am dead serious about that)

My contact with Federal government is limited to paying the IRS...that's it! I like it like that! Sure, when I buy a new firearm I have to fill out a form and the Feds get a copy...big deal. But I don't have to kiss their ass to do so...I just have to fill out a form with the serial number, etc. I have no real issue there.

Federal government is the 800lb gorilla in the room. Giving over our choices and our Constitutionally guaranteed autonomy to DC is a fatal mistake and one I will never abide...the Constitution tells me I do not have to do it and I won't. The Framer's were clear that our Republic would end if we ever gave over our freedom and autonomy for any guarantees of safety and the Feds providing for me. I do not need the Feds for anything at all.

So, how is it again that progressives can pay lip service to the loss of choice and the evils of big and powerful anything, then advocate for union control and the Federal government being all powerful? The source of all Manna from Heaven? All hope?

Yet again progressives prove they are either totally clueless or hypocrites trying to sell us a bill of goods - snake oil. Which is it? I vote for both...they seem to be clueless hypocrites based on their rhetoric when said rhetoric is examined in light of all the things they say. Progressivism is, in its totality, a contradictory concept. What? That's not nice of me to call them hypocrites? What do you call a liar? A hypocrite? One trying to manipulate you? They're exceedingly lucky all I do is call them what they are. Imagine the whine if I treated them as they deserve to be treated based entirely upon how they treat me? Betcha that would evoke that progressive primal scream I so love to hear!