Is that every liberal I know is firmly in favor of giving the government almost unlimited authority over my health care, how I conduct business, what happens to my money, and countless other things, all the way down to the most mundane details of my daily life.
An objective and honest observer over recent decades would conclude that the "don't trust the government" slogan from the Left seems to be exclusively limited to governments that are not controlled by liberals or leftists.
I have pointed this out in the past, noting that calls for "balance" and "bipartisanism," and warnings about "concentration of power" when Republicans control "too many" branches of the government, are never heard from these same people when their side runs all three branches.
What's fascinating about the "Don't Trust Government" bit...
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- American Experience - The Berlin Airlift
- Incidentally...
- I remember a Liberal Political Science professor telling me the Berlin Airlift was a complete waste of resourses.
- re: After Communism, religious fanaticism
- I'm not being facetious, but I do want to hear it.
- re: Truman
- ER's Korean theory.
- And Vietnam was different from Korea how?
- Incidentally...