I agree with your post except this:
“I also think we would agree on the rule of law, and that it should be applied to everyone equally, including too big to fail banks.”
Lefties by definitions don’t actually believe in the rule of law or equality before the law. They spout it, like they spout civil rights rhetoric, as a means of cloaking themselves with legitimacy. But when the rubber meets the road, they have goals such as redistributing wealth, central economic planning and other measures to create their socialist utopia: all antithetical to the rule of law.
“Some are more equal than others”
They are planning on trying to meet on July 4, 2012 to re-write the Constitution to include all kinds of new “rights”.
The “right” to a wage, whether you work or not.
The “right” to a single payer healthcare system.
It’s out there... look it up.
Isn’t that, you know, kind of treason?