Originally Posted by
catcher1
The most enjoyable aspect of this thread, for me, is extrapolating the posts as reflecting the posters' political viewpoints generally, beyond the thread topic.

There are some people who are on very different ends of the politics spectrum who may agree on regulation matters in one way or another despite being on what are usually opposite the sides of a political divide.
I am a contextual libertarian on economic matters and more so on social matters, and my angle on industries that benefit massively from government involvement is that regulation is par for the course for them and that consumers have at least as much right to demand what is good for consumers as corporate apologists demand what is good for their pet corporations/industry at the expense of consumers in the main.