[The_Rorschach]

I don't know how old you are, but you lack of experience is showing. I wish Kevin were here, he is better at explaning things such as this, but I'll give it a go. Try and think of society as a diamond, resplendent, with many facets. Politics, the economy and the community are linked inseperably.

This is how the cycle works. The economy begins as a free market with little or no regulation. As it abuses the trust which the community and government have put into it, it finds regulations arising. This is best illustrating by the Trust issues of the late nineteenth century. If you would read the history of the times, you will see that Roosevelt didn't have a right to interfere unless an emergency arose, or he was invited to as a representative of the government. When he disregarded protocol and chose to insert himself anyway, he not only set precident for future Presidents, but anyway. . . Such regulations infringe upon property rights, as it is defined above. The Economic Element fights back, contesting laws and regulations where they can, and subverting them where they cannot, thus freedom of production continues, as does continued infringement upon those freedoms. Largely, the community is used as a pawn between the two, to continue in the Trusts vein, the Economic Element maintained that the Community profitted from the lower prices and wider availibility of goods as well as the standardized level of excellence, the Government maintained that without competitive agents, during strikes and times of duress, the Community would suffer shortages. For instance the Coal shortages which left many American lives in the north endangered by the elements.

So far so good right? Both are battling for public good, so Community is the big winner, right? Well, not exactly, see when the Liberal government possess powers of production, it has begun the transformation into Totalitarianism. The Economic Element is secular in a captialistic or liberal system, it is purely private, but when it becomes constricted and controlled by the government, it ceases to be secular and becomes federal.

I think I've filled in enough dots for even you to understand this simple concept.