We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
And this is precisely what makes Obama and his administration so dangerous. They truly believe they are the "smartest guys in the room" and can build a better economic system from the top-down. Increasing freedom is anathema to them as it just complicates their plans for their pristine little utopia.
Free economies are what happen when people are left alone.
My first compelling lesson in that was when, while working on the Long Island Expressway, they dug up multiple Indian caches of obsidian - from Wyoming. The Indians had their own global economy.