The Republican Debate was embarrassing on so many levels.

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as we saw and heard on Wednesday night, government is absolutely awful. Government, they imply, having taken too much of your money, will now seek to acquire your guns and religious beliefs. The only thing that can save this great land is business. Oh sweet business, it will save us all.

The reflexive lionization of business by Republicans doesn’t get called out nearly enough by Democrats. There is a lengthy record of business screwing over customers, employees and the general public just in the past decade for the sole purpose of a strong quarterly earnings report. People have died and been grotesquely injured because of the relentless pursuit of ever more profit. Democrats don’t defend government and public institutions–which are by definition accountable to everyone–with anywhere close to the fervor of how the Republicans glorify business. The left needs to change this.

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