One Can Talk,

as Paul Krugman does in this piece, about there being basically two sets of moralities when it comes to politics, but it boils down to just one thing: It's altruism versus selfishness. As of now, selfishness is running the show, and our country is on the verge of ruination because of it.

We have Ayn Rand and crackpot economist Milton Friedman to thank for this dismal state of affairs. They believed in some childish, utopian notion of "libertarianism." However, it doesn't exist and cannot exist as long as there are two people in the world.

Once upon a time, both political parties believed in the role of government in helping to rein in the worst tendencies of so-called "free markets." Now, though, you have idiots like Sharron Angle who think the very concept of government is illegitimate. Far from extreme, this is now "mainstream" GOP "thinking."