Political Hybrid

Why do we persist with this Left-Right dualism?I'm as guilty as anyone. Just finished this:http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=303630
I love this woman and usually agree with most of what she says , but I reserve my caveats.
After years (decades) of the Right's accension and the deregulation, 'free-market' frenzy, it will take just as long to repair the damage. Massive investment in infrastructure, health and education is required... and the Neo-Fascists will fight to the death and srceam"communism!!!!". I agree wholeheartedly that we should begin to take our country back.
However, the Left is still milking the teat of the Right's sacred cow.
Cornucopian , Corporate 'Capitalism' and self censorship lest they get tarred with the ' Pinko" label.
Where is the dicussion of Peak Oil? where is the talk of dismantling the corporate state?
In my own experiance with entrepreneurial endeavors, it's the regulations that apply to the smallest of us as if we were Walmart that are a fundamental problem. For regulation to work it has to be enforced equally, but with wisdom. As an organic farmer, I was inspected and bothered about every damned detail. My gigantic competitors had lawyers and consultants and staffs to deal with this, as well as money for campaign contributions and lobbyists , and enough scale and market-share to set prices. Low prices worked for them, and against me in a world of stagnant wages and hidden inflation. The industry standards, arbitrarily set by the biggest players, not because it was better (it wasn't) but because it was one more straw on the backs of small, local growers. Standards for manure and compost handling in the national organic rules are next to impossible for small organic growers.


The point is, I'm all for regulation, and Free Enterprise, but we have to talk about how the Big Boys have stolen our means of taking care of ourself. How they have rewritten the law and the rules to outlaw self sufficiency and self-employment. There is no reason to coddle corporations at the expense of little, local business, unless you believe in Cornucopia.Efficiency is used to justify the rise of big business. No print is given to the idea of a finite world or uncommodified quality of life.
It's not just Farming...
I talk to local Democrats . When I talk about getting 'the government out of our business', they equate that with all the corporate 'deregulation' nonsense of the past 30 years. Of course, I am not Exxon Raytheon or Cargill. The big ones have been deregulated at our expense. We have been regulated into a corner where the entrepreneurial spirit has been starved out of us and we will line up for a 'job' at Mcdonald's.
Ther is some recessive gene in me that expresses itself in not being able to function in a corporate 'environment'. I'm too smart to ignore inefficiencies and stupid, wasteful, low-quality ways of doing things.
This means trouble in corpworld where one is expected to do as one's told. This has infected what 'small' enterprise still exists.I'm speaking from experience in food-service. Quality goes out the back door in order to 'compete' w/ the giants.One has to cheat at every opportunity. And go into massive debt.
This is unsustainable and need to be adressed , where is this argument from the Left?
As usual, objective reality and the mythical reality are diametrically opposed.
The myth says that quality wins in the marketplace.
With the current upheavals on Wall street, does anyone truly believe this?

Perhaps in the long run. But for too long, malfeasance and avarice and willful denial has won, at the expense of all our quality of life.