[marktwain]

“rather than their corporate masters.”

Typical “progressive” has to throw in discredited marxist economic theory into the mix. Nothing to back it up.

Notice how he includes federal dam projects, land holding, and federally subsidized railroads, and only includes “heavy mining equipment and ore smelters” as examples of corporate masters. He may as well include steel manufacturers and gun makers. What a stretch.

[rellimpank]

--For now, the country will remain split on how best to make its citizens safer, with Deep South and its allies bent on deterrence through armament and the threat of capital punishment, and Yankeedom and its allies determined to bring peace through constraints such as gun control. The deadlock will persist until one of these camps modifies its message and policy platform to draw in the swing nations. Only then can that camp seize full control over the levers of federal power—the White House, the House, and a filibuster-proof Senate majority—to force its will on the opposing nations. Until then, expect continuing frustration and division.--

--"force its will"--really sounds like what the writers of the Constitution meant, doesn't it?--(SARC)