Car sharing is lightning rod on both sides of political divide in unusual Uber capitalism debate | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

In 2012, a young Uber tried to squeeze itself into the presidential election hype by launching a “Freedom rides” promotion for new users. This election cycle, the $40 billion startup is in the crosshairs — as a proxy for Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls to argue their ideological differences. The first of this came Monday morning…