The Righteous and the Wicked

In the midst of making a point about how democrats can position themselves against eh righteous blowhards of the right, poputonian over at Digby's Hullaballoo says:

But the losers in the corrupted game are the workers (voters), including honest entrepreneurs and innovators, who are left frustrated and anxious by a system that rewards cheaters. Everyone is being eaten alive by the sharks in the water. The endless cycle of mergers and acquisitions keeps the money flowing up the pyramid, where it is then siphoned off for personal gain by pyramid-squatting CEOs.

So if the Democrats need to be righteous about something, and want something to reclaim from the opposition, I would say to reclaim the free marketplace, which this administration has utterly corrupted and destroyed.

Good idea. I know lots of people who are pissed simply because they don't even know who their damned phone company is anymore. Or their cable provider. Or who to call when their computer barfs up a hard drive.

Let's change the American entrepreneurial dream from "I hope we do well enough for long enough to get bought" to "Let's do well enough to keep acquiring more customers".

I know one company that resisted the temptation to merge, which would have destroyed anything good they'd hoped to accomplish. And I know another company that's run with pride and excellence - the keys to getting and keeping customers.