23 Jun 2020 4:06 pm
By IkeBana:
My opinion regarding what a liberal might be is pretty simplistic. Complicated analyses on just about any subject makes my brain hurt and my ADD flare up. So here goes. My premise will be rejected by conservative/republicans...it always is. But I remain invested in it's accuracy. Conservatives and republicans insist that they are supporters of "smaller gubmint."
1. They say they support reduced government spending, however, take one look at the history of the national debt and you will see that Republican presidential administrations regularly preside over the largest increases in the debt, and particularly when they are supported by republican legislative majorities. They will always point to Obama...but Obama did what was necessary to stave off a full fledged depression in 2009, through stimulus spending and government take over of various parts of the economy.
2. they say they support less intrusive government...getting the government off the backs of the people and out of the people's business. Feh.
So here's the difference. Liberal Democrats and Conservative Republicans both want just as much government, just as much spending, and just as much intrusion in the lives of the people. We just want it in different places from where they want it, for instance...
I want my nose in their gun locker. They want their noses in my wife's reproductive organs. It's not what we do or what they do, it's where we want to do it.
My opinion regarding what a liberal might be is pretty simplistic. Complicated analyses on just about any subject makes my brain hurt and my ADD flare up. So here goes. My premise will be rejected by conservative/republicans...it always is. But I remain invested in it's accuracy. Conservatives and republicans insist that they are supporters of "smaller gubmint."
1. They say they support reduced government spending, however, take one look at the history of the national debt and you will see that Republican presidential administrations regularly preside over the largest increases in the debt, and particularly when they are supported by republican legislative majorities. They will always point to Obama...but Obama did what was necessary to stave off a full fledged depression in 2009, through stimulus spending and government take over of various parts of the economy.
2. they say they support less intrusive government...getting the government off the backs of the people and out of the people's business. Feh.
So here's the difference. Liberal Democrats and Conservative Republicans both want just as much government, just as much spending, and just as much intrusion in the lives of the people. We just want it in different places from where they want it, for instance...
I want my nose in their gun locker. They want their noses in my wife's reproductive organs. It's not what we do or what they do, it's where we want to do it.