America In Transition:
Moving from a Conservative to a Liberal Society
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Expanding the power of Government at the expense of individual freedoms IS the liberal agenda. The end result is the destruction of the United States as a country. Pure and simple, it's communism - proven by history to be an ineffective form of government. In the end the government has everything and the people have little, and are completely dependent on the government for everyday life needs. This is why I am a conservative Republican. Nothing is perfect, but the conservative way at least can work whereas communism will never work. |
both orthodox liberal and orthodox conservative ideology represent two extremes at each of the end of the political spectrum - seems to me that the kind of government that works for it's people would lie somewhere in the middle. obviously, the Great Society programs of the 60's and the resulting welfare state they created highlight the flaws in liberal ideology. but some judiciously applied government intervention can be enourmously beneficial to a society as well - the railroads of the 19th century and the Internet of the 20th century are prime examples. health care comes to mind as well - i've had government-controlled health care (Washington State Basic Health Care, back in the early 90's) and it worked a hell of a lot better than what i have now.
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I might be inclined to agree with you there, knife. Government spending is way up, and while most of it is going towards the military, which I don't mind, there's lots of room for some congressmen to tack on their own spending measures to completly unrelated spending bills and get them approved without objection. It might be happening under everyone's noses. And then you have the Patriot Act and the controversy it's stirring up. Government programs and spending are obviously necessary, but everything in moderation people. I've said it for years, we need fewer laws, not more. The U.S. Code could stand to loose a few thousand pages, especially where it concerns income taxes. Before making new laws, the fat needs to be trimmed from the lean.
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Also, many European allies of yours have left leaning governments, which are hardly communist. It's not pure and simple, the world is not black and white. |
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simplistic binary political thinking is not a strategy for good government; it's designed only for the accumulation and retention of political power. |
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