>>NJ just spent almost $1 billion to replace some bridges with much higher ones to allow that supertankers carrying Walmart products through.

Taking this at face value, I'd expect that NJ has an interest in ports and/or receives fees from shipping so wants to incentivize growth.

>>Take a trip on our crumbling, vastly underfunded highways and bridges and you'll be hard pressed to drive very long without seeing a Walmart truck.

Roads are one of the things most societies decide it's in everybody's interests to fund. Without roads, neither Walmart nor anybody else would be able to deliver reasonably-priced goods to your favorite supermarket or deli. If the public roads decay too much, the 1% may create their own roads as has happened in Texas. Better to elect representatives who will maintain the public roads, even if it involves tolls.

But for any sort of change to gain traction, you need to identify the Uniparty swampers on both sides of the aisle and elect somebody else- and then be ready to support them when the Uniparty goes after the Trumps and Ocasio-Cortezes.

>>Walmart employees line up regularly in the Medicaid line. Many qualify for food stamps.

I know- another concept usually only seen in the shaky third world. The idea that US business isn't responsible for paying a living wage because daddy taxpayer will top it up if business pays too little, is a classic Uniparty policy favoring the 1%. And winding it back is fearfully difficult if there's a workforce prepared to work for peanuts- yet another Uniparty policy.

>>Burke and Paine proved fairly definitively that impassioned people can find virtue - or its lack- in just about any position.

As can psychopaths, fascists and propagandists. Meanwhile Burke also complained of jealousy and readiness to take offence amongst his countryfolk that made it difficult for him to have anything to do with them. ;-)

>>Do you really think that George III was going to say .."You know, that guy Paine has a virtuous point. I'll tell my guys to come back home?"

No, George believed it was not just virtuous but obligatory for colonists to pay the required taxes and obey.

>>Andrew Carnegie, probably the richest man who ever lived and a prototype for subsequent philanthropists, said candidly that he only gave away as much as he did (a small fraction of his vast wealth) out of fear of a revolution.

Thanks for that... a great contrast with the "let them eat cake" attitude of the 2019 1% and their assault on middle class incomes. Right now, they're getting away with it.