Thanks for replying. I’m not “in doubt” about these issues. I keep an open mind, though. And it’s not a matter of “who is to blame,” but of realities. Currently, “government” allows plenty of “freedom” to corporations and capitalists in general. That’s one of the causes of the current mess -that they have been running wild for at least four decades now. Barbarians are always at the gates. These monsters entered the city and are ransacking the place. Republican Theodore Roosevelt knew them well, and fought them.

If you have a different analysis, based on history and reality, please share it with us. Platitudes like those you uttered are not enough to qualify as arguments. I’m almost sure that you could come up with arguments, but your remarks did not qualify as such -with all due respect. Better still, respond to Umair Haque’s essay here. I’d like to see how you do that -unless you agree with him, in which case it’d be odd that you disagree with me. To be sure, I don’t mind disagreements. But I do mind the arguments in support of a position. Platitudes fail to make the cut.