We've been trained by corporate media to believe that 'free markets' are a panacea for all ills. As a result, the preponderance of life is now governed by gigantic financial entities more closely resembling feudal royal satraps than representative government and responsible enterprise. This, while gobbling more of the fruits of an individual's labor than royalty and slave holders ever did, according to conservative Paul Craig Roberts. Ever increasing portions of the wealth created by our labor flowing directly to corporations instead of government doesn't equate with freedom. Common people accepting the mantra of 'free markets' would do well to remember that great tyranny doesn't give a hoot as to which end of the political spectrum it emanates from. Ronald Reagan was a paid shill for General Electric and Americans should remember exactly how he got his start in politics. Most have no idea. His legacy is empowered corporations at the expense of representative government and personal choice. I fail to find any "liberty" in that. Every president since has made this state of affairs worse, by bending an ever deeper knee to wholly rapacious financiers - even when they weren't their spawn.