Robby Porter: The free market ideology

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Robby Porter, of East Montpelier, a self-employed woodworker and the owner and partner in small scale hydroelectric projects. He is the author of “Doodlebug, A Road Trip Journal,”.
Like a lot of Americans, I drive around wondering what it would take to feel as though we were all in this together, one country instead of red against blue, liberal against conservative, rich against poor.
I got a little insight on a cold, rainy Friday while I wa