Somehow, my portrayal of the reality of today's economy gets labeled "leftist" and "leveling" when it's simply a description of what happens in today's economy.

I didn't advocate anything taking money from one party and giving it to another, remotely -- if that's what you have read through your filter, that's fine.

What I *do* favor is an end to a small minority of society manipulating the rules of the game to fill only their coffers. There is an argument that "the market will take care of everyone" (that Libertarian, laissez-faire bit that fiscal 'conservatives' use to justify gorging at a buffet they've changed the rules to create while ignoring what happens in deregulated markets) and this insane return to Reaganomics, with the same disastrous results for much of the population, amplified by a power and money-grab by people who learned just enough from the mistakes of the 80s to make sure they safeguarded their haul this time.

And no, I'm not a leftist. Beware when the larger proportion of Christian conservatives realize what useful idiots our movement has been to the corporate elite. The wave that follows may cut the Republican party off at the knees.