It doesn't mean anything, because Democrats haven't. It's interesting that you mention Koch by name, because what you describe in the first paragraph is left-libertarianism, which has seductive but ultimately futile arguments (that I think kleinbl00 has been arguing against elsewhere in this thread). As I said above, I don't see in radical leftism what you see. Not anymore. The most extreme (non-libertarian) leftists these days are on the side of centralized government most of the time.I mostly agree with you here, actually. But at the same time I really don't have faith that a Senate controlled by Democrats would have done anything seriously curtail issues related to climate change. The only way to really solve those issues is to distribute concentrated power so that we can build control systems that make better decisions and solve problems more efficiently, as I suggested at the end. IMO, switching between Democrats and Republicans doesn't mean anything.