Coyote has a decent piece up (snippet here or full article on Forbes) primarily dealing with progressive ignorance. In short – it summarizes the (oftentimes willful) ignorance of the left when it comes to public policy prescriptions for “fixing” capitalism.

However we should not forget the need to look at the flip side of the coin. The right has often been long on the talk of capitalism and free markets – but let the left slide and even doing their own part.

Romneycare anyone? What’s a more free market – a market free of government coercion or government coercion as the core means of product delivery?

Earmarks? Nothing beats padding the wallets of the connected and Republicans haven’t done much to conceal their hypocrisy here.

Or how about the tenure of Republican Ray LaHood in his fiefdom of regulation and taxpayer-funded handouts?

So  I’m often torn when I see posts like Coyote’s. The (arguably flawed) choice we’re left with is, which is better: those who deliver all of the wrong solutions because they often don’t know better or those who deliver all of the wrong solutions when the already know better.