Contributed by: filbert Friday, September 04 2009 @ 01:48 PM CST
That’s because while some Republicans have always bothered me a bit with their obsession on certain social issues, the Democrats simply scare the hell out of me. And while Republicans tend to get more moderate, or even start leaning leftward when they have control over everything, the Democrats get even more crazily out of control when they have all of the cards in the deck of political power.
The Republicans have the saving virtue of actually caring about national defense and promoting freedom, liberty, and the rule of law. The Democrats–and I’m talking about the national Democratic Party leadership here–demonstrate time and time again that they really don’t care about defending the nation, are actively opposed to freedom and liberty, both at home and in places like Honduras, and they certainly have disdain if not contempt for the rule of law, not to mention the very people who voted to put them in office. The latter is the most important takeaway lesson from the August town hall meetings–at least, the ones that Democrats were willing to hold.
It’s time to undo the New Deal and restore traditional American liberty and personal responsibility. I don’t have a big problem with some kind of means-tested social safety net to cover those who are truly needy, but we simply can not afford to cast that social safety net over the entire country, and take over half of the gross domestic product of the country away from the productive private sector and spend it instead on government.
We can’t afford it.
We can’t afford it.
We can’t afford it.
It will destroy this country, the exact same way that socialism destroyed Russia in the U.S.S.R. years, and the way it has corroded and corrupted the once-world-leading United Kingdom. We can’t afford it.