I won’t say much about the US Auto industry here, except it was their Management that shot themselves in the foot, big time.

Yes, I agree with smaller government in some areas. But, people have been killed by major gas pipelines exploding from corrosion, but the pipeline companies were not required by law to do more than just fly over it to find flaws & leaks. Or, dumping toxics that get into drinking water wasn’t that big a thing for many years, no matter how many people got cancer.

Right now, I feel there’s too little middle ground in politics.

So, I feel like we’re getting so polarized in the US that it’s becoming a Neo-Socialism versus Feudalism (like medieval Europe) battle. Neo-Socialism, where the government has to take over businesses since their management went too crazy in profit making & cutting corners, thereby losing many jobs or making medical services too expensive for the average person. Modern Feudalism, where budget cuts make public education useless for the masses, but the wealthy have the better private education for their own, and the money to influence so much that is done by government.

Looking at past US Presidents is interesting in it’s own right. The anger over Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon cost him the 1976 Election, but 3 decades later most of the public felt a Watergate Witch hunt was not a wise idea after all. I thought at one point that LBJ was inept, but later on I changed my mind about him.

Teddy Roosevelt is interesting to examine. John McCain was pushing a similar type of agenda in 2000 (“the money is ruining the party”), but the powers that be in his party did such a good smear job on him then that some of those negative charges still stuck around in 2008.

I’m also seeing a shift in the public, akin to the one lead that to disaster in the 1972 & 1980 Presidential Elections. But, this time the shift seems to be away from the Republicans, not the Democrats. Radio shows calling the public a bunch of unpatriotic idiots won’t fix this for the Republicans, either. Alienation of the public is the LAST thing someone in politics should do.