See, to me, "freedom" from a democratically elected government (which is by no definition authoritarian) sounds more like good-old oppressive feudalism. It was far worse than anything a democratic government has ever done. I see a strong, regulating, democratic government as liberating me from oppressive corporations. And we're not talking about the middle ages. The US suffered greatly under the oppressive power of the robber barons only 100 years ago. People like Carnegie, Frick, Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan and Rockefeller ruthlessly exploited an entire country, and it took a lot of effort and the courage of Teddy Roosevelt to free America from those people through regulation.

I don't understand how people in a country freed from corporate oppression by government regulation a mere century ago can think that doing away with regulation can "free" you from anything.