I'm for small government run by people, who rely on reason and rationality and who don't interfere in my or anyone else's personal life, provided that no one is actively harming anyone else or their property. At one point in our history, that was a pretty popular view not only in Philly, where I'm from and where a bunch of people signed some papers to that effect, but also in most of the country. Now, we only have an illusory choice of supporting one of two sets of corporate interests, both of which love certain flavors of big government and thought/behavior policing.

And people wonder why America is currently torn three ways among a bombastic iconoclast, a venomous establishment huckster, and, something that most wouldn't have predicted ten years ago, a Brooklyn-born Jewish socialist democrat from Vermont, who's been endorsed by Phish (or at least their tubby, sundress-wearing drummer). And I don't say that last part disparagingly. There's something invigorating about Bernie, even though I know my taxes would go through the roof if he somehow managed to push his agenda through Congress.