yeah, but what I'm saying it is impossible to keep business out of politics
I dunno why people (republicans) look back at the days of Gould, Sumner, and Rockefeller like it was some time of Utopian example of laissez faire capitalism. The consolidation of wealth, zero workers rights, the most extreme examples of business leading the government around by the nose, the exploitation of immigrants, it all smacks of an elitism that people sit back and kid themselves into thinking they would matter in. Its like all those kids in The Decline of Western Civilization who can say with a straight face that they're totally gonna make it. They think because they don't receive any tangible financial benefit from the government that its laws and regulations don't benefit them in some way. Excuse me if I'm not all for those 'old timey' union busters