Dems pretend to care about individual rights, as long as you're part of a historically repressed minority. And then when it comes time to actually write policy, well, they actually don't support homosexual marriage - and they don't actually reform the war on drugs, if anything, Clinton cracked down as hard as Reagan.
Reps pretend to care about individual rights too, but only if you own a gun or have a radio show. They talk about the bill of rights and the 2nd amendment, but when the party brass gets together to pick a front-runner they decide on Rudy.
By all calculations, the two parties are incredibly "authoritarian," a term that applies equally well to the left or the right. Whether its warrantless searches or smoking laws or media regulation, there's no party with a real libertarian or freedom agenda.
So why do they feel the need to hide behind a few sham libertarian positions? Why do party loyalists reward them for verbal idealism and legislative tyranny?
2007-11-05 05:46:51 · 3 answers · asked by freedom first 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It's called lying. They will lie & promis anything just to get your vote. Then once in office they screw you royally.
2007-11-06 05:00:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I am a fiscal Libertarian and a Social Conservative. I find Social Libertarianism to be hopelessly naive. This nation was not founded on the concept of everyone doing whatever whenever. It is based on the principle of moral absolutism.
John Adams said in 1798, "Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
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2007-11-05 14:02:24 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All in the name of politics and popularity...simple as that
2007-11-05 13:50:09 · answer #3 · answered by Blair Waldorf 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋