(09-07-2016, 01:20 AM)taramarie Wrote:(09-07-2016, 01:14 AM)Galen Wrote:(09-07-2016, 12:59 AM)taramarie Wrote:(09-07-2016, 12:37 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(09-07-2016, 12:21 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: I leave you alone a lot, but at other times I can resist baiting you. It's easy. All I have to do is speak the truth, and the venom and nonsense come pouring out. "Give 'em hell" Eric!
You realize there is a partisan symmetry to this? All someone centered on a red perspective has to do is speak what they perceive of as the truth, and you will respond with what they perceive of as venom? From the sidelines it's like watching a tennis match.
From a real side-liner observing Americans now THAT is the truth.
I am not exactly happy with the Republicans either. Come to think, of it the Libertarian Party is pretty lame these days but they have taken to nominating Republicans these days.
All have their strengths and weaknesses. What amazes me is how polarized it can get over there. Especially culturally at times. I have never seen anything quite like it.
That is what happens when you try to make everyone and everything the same through government force. Unless you have a homogeneous society, which the US has never really had, it tends to go this way. Everyone tries to get the ring for himself. If you want to get an idea of how limited the Federal Government was supposed to be I would suggest reading the US Constitution and then take a good hard look at what it does today.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises