the more people agitate about reducing the scope of government (or, on the other side, reducing the influence of big banks) the better The problem isn't that p

the more people agitate about reducing the scope of government (or, on the other side, reducing the influence of big banks) the better The problem isn't that people are agitating about the wrong issues. The problem is that voters are suckers. They believe the leaders of their political parties that tell them that they're going to reduce the size of government or restrict the power of banks. Then when Republicans and Democrats get together to both dramatically increase the size of government expenditures and bail out the banks that failed the hardest, who is held accountable? No one. Do you reckon it's time to be smart about achieving those goals, rather than pontificating about The Way Things Ought To Be Pot/Kettle? We're sitting here arguing about this stuff on HN. We're not accomplishing anything. Worse, you actually tried to diminish me as a person by throwing out that red meat of "Fox News and the Koch brothers" when factually I haven't found how you disagree at all with my original point. Let's face it, we're just entertaining ourselves by going back and forth on a Friday. :)