I assume you’re talking about “Boom Town” and Tracy’s speech defending Gable and the American entrepreneurial “wildcatter” spirit. It’s a pretty good speech, and I’d prefer to look at it as in a kind of polar tension with Deed’s speech rather than the bizarro obverse of it.
My problem is not with real risk takers, but with bankers who have set up the rules so that they work risk free, and the rest of us have to clean up their messes.

Now Patrick, we all know that anti-trust laws aren’t really laws–they are chains that restrain and weigh down the American spirit–they prevent men of action from, well, acting, and, you know, making America great. And besides Gable was in legal trouble because he was trying to do the right thing–conserving the oil reserves. And his wife loved him. And he had a nice kid.
I guess you just don’t understand what makes America great–or at least you don’t understand how to uncritically get swept up into the spirit of movies that celebrate what makes America great.
Seriously, the movie celebrates an important aspect of the American mythos, and the mistake is to take it seriously on its own terms. But I can take it seriously if it’s held in tension with the more Capra-esque mythos.
Nothing is ever one or the other; it’s always about tensional relationships. The problems arise when one side dominates and extinguishes the other. And I wouldn’t want the “wildcat” spirit to be extinguished anymore than I would want the “we’re-in-this-together” spirit that Capra celebrates to be.
The problem, of course, is now we really need to re-balance in the direction of ‘we’re in this together’. The relationship between liberté and égalité is brokered by fraternité.