The Need to Make Big Business Less Big
By Barry C. Lynn
February 22, 2017 at 11:56AM
via The Atlantic http://ift.tt/2lwA9BI
《In 1792, Madison wrote that it was the "independent" citizen who served as "the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety." This proved true in the 20th century. For decades, the Democratic Party's overwhelming electoral success was due in no small part to the fact that it delivered an important form of political economic freedom to the businessperson, worker, shopkeeper, and farmer. These free citizens then returned the party to power.》