Founding Father Alexander Hamilton was a smart guy, but he should have avoided Aaron Burr.

Contrast this philosophy, which guides the spirit of the American people’s compact with the federal government (the Constitution), with this gem from the good people at Smart Balance (they make some kind of delicious buttery spread): “Denmark is the first country to legally ban artificial trans fats. The Danish people seem to be doing just fine without it… Sounds like a pretty good law.”

You know what, Smart Balance people, whoever you are? You can have my trans fats when you pry them out of my cold, dead hands. Apparently, if the Smart Balance people had their way, the feds would be regulating how much fat, or what kind of fat, I decide to eat each day, a.k.a., regulating “every species of personal and private concerns.” Even Doctor McCoy is saying, “Good God, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a Constitutional lawyer!”

You don’t have to be a Constitutional lawyer to see plainly that the Smart Balance people (whoever they are) are perfectly fine with violating the rights of every American in order to benefit their business. The term “fascism” is typically associated with murdering tyrants, but in the early 1900s it simply described the state’s relationship to the individual. It did not have the connotation it does today until the very nature of the system made it easy for tyrants to be tyrants and start murdering their people en masse.

And, in such a system, the government has a very cozy relationship with corporations, favoring certain ones over others, as well as certain industries over others. So, at one time it was called “fascism”, but in today’s topsy-turvy, girls will be boys and boys will be girls, mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world they call it “progressive”.