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Originally Posted by pachyderm
Just another of my rambles -- you can dismiss it if you wish.
It occurs to me:
The Democratic party is the party of compassion -- the desire to help the less fortunate. The Republican party is the party of realism -- one that realizes we live in a real world, where resources are not infinite, and not everyone can have everything they want just because they want it. In both parties there are many who see their positions as the only valid ones. They do not admit any value in the other position. I see President Obama as the greatest example that I have seen in a long time, on the national scene, of a politician who has the confidence in himself that he can hold both ideas in his head at the same time, and try to balance them. He does not always succeed, as he is bombarded from all sides by those who can only see one thing. But he tries.
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I think that is a pretty good observation from a conventional point of view, but you are painting in Broad strokes. I disagree with you about our current President though. Having read his books, listened to his speeches, looked at the legislation I can only see a very dedicated statest who believes that the power of Washington is always benevolent and federal bureaucrats are smarter and wiser than the rest of us.
Republicans and Democrats are not in my eyes as radically different as they are portrayed in the media, and neither act on a lot of the ideas they espouse. I find the conservative/liberal paradim to be riddled with inconsistancies, and thus not truly relevant.
Both parties are largely made up of statests with differing emphasis, the Republicans seem to believe that people cannot make moral decisions for themselves hence the need for drug laws, anti abortion laws, marriage discrimination laws, and wars of conquest etc... Democrats on their part do not believe people can make the right financial decisions, hence their continued desires for higher taxes, greater government spending, expanding dependency,etc...
In the end to all politicians, we the people are just serfs, whose labor is to be used to keep them in power, so they can grant favors to their freinds, and punish their enemies. Both parties created this angry duopoly to keep us divided and blinded to the slow destruction of our once great republic. Basically this was established with Woodrow Wilson's and FDR's massive power grab and expansion of Federal power.
The Statests have won, to be honest, people have decided to succeed their soverignty in exchange for the illusion of material security and protection from all of life's potential ills. I can understand, after all you cannot eat freedom, or heat your home with it either.
We Libertarians are a dying breed, and the flame of free will flickers with each gust of new round of federal power. One day in the future when our Grand Children are milling around in labor camps to pay off our debts, they will curse us all.