[Welp, there are about 200 places that this post hits home. He doesn't know whether or not to comment on it. He wants to, but he senses a person teetering at the edge of a tirade.

It's not as though he hasn't had plenty of his own. Ultimately, he does decide to say something.]

I suspect that they would have been villains to someone, either way. And especially the way that would push a statist agenda.