[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[david buchanan]

Mary said:
It appears to me that what's wrong with American politics is something the founding fathers did not foresee,..  For good or ill, whether intended or simply not foreseen at the time, there is one area the Constitution and Bill of Rights does not address.  One area of law we were left to grapple with on our own.  That area is commerce and capitalism.   At the time of our founding, there were no big oil companies and no Goldman-Sachs, no Wal-Mart and no Chinese industrial engine.


dmb says:
Today's global corporations are much bigger than anything the founders could imagine but it's also true that the American colonies were essentially commercial enterprises in the first place and our founding documents were being written at the same time that Adam Smith was a very famous dude. "Beware the power of moneyed incorporations", he wrote. He said that at a time when the wealth of entire nations was equal to what we now spend in a day but the english-speaking world was definitely aware. His famous book, The Wealth of Nations, was published in 1776. As I read our history, we've been WAY too interested in commerce since before we were born and it's deeply ingrained in those founding documents as well as the rest of our so-called culture.
With all due respect to the clash, I'm all lost in the supermarket. I can no longer shop happily.