All four taken together provide balance, so I guess that makes me a moderate. I think you can safely say that people who choose just two to promote and protect are extremists, and the direction is only a detail based on which two they pick. What matters is the balance.
It's just a balance of vectors: "freedom to" balanced against "freedom from".
Retirement can only be hell if you don't have the freedom from want and fear. As people get physically frail and less able to provide for themselves they naturally become afraid; that's called "being realistic". The stereotype of the fearful senior citizen is based on reality, and FDR intended to mitigate their fear chief among the people he wanted to help. There's a reason Social Security is considered the centerpiece of the New Deal.
Republicans would smash Social Security and turn everyone's retirement over to Wall St to manage just as it's managed everything else so well these last few decades. Hard to believe sometimes that I share a planet and DNA with these people.
Current Events » in reply to I do believe you've stumbled onto something, Robert.
To me the freedoms are a matched set
The whole thread (25 posts)
- Brave political move on marriage equality
- This was strictly a political move.
- Re: Brave political move on marriage equality