I have left the Republican party. I want to stand behind liberty. I do not believe that the Republican Party does. An article I just read sums it up nicely.
For libertarians, the GOP is a total loss: like the neocons and the old "Scoop Jackson" Democrats, they are bad on everything, including domestic policy. Today, whatever skeptics of the government's power to effect positive change, at home and abroad, still exist inside the Republican Party are lonely guardians of a nearly forgotten tradition. This is the party of Big Government, and Big Ambitions overseas: in the new Bushian GOP we are witnessing the triumph of "National Greatness" Republicanism. Gone is the plain, republican cloth coat: in its place GOPers flaunt the imperial purple.Libertarians no longer have any place in the GOP coalition, and any who remain will have long since betrayed their ostensible devotion to liberty. The Republican Party is today hopelessly authoritarian. Maddened by war, its leaders are so corrupted by power and their desperation to hold on to it, that they will resort to any tactic, any subterfuge, no matter how contemptible and/or self-defeating. A good example is their secret funding of the campaign of Democrat Joe Lieberman against their own candidate for U.S. Senate in Connecticut. As Insight magazine reports, the GOP's Karl Rove steered millions of dollars from big Republican contributors into Lieberman's coffers.
I don't like the Republican party, but I like the Democratic party less. They are really scary. They are socialists. They want huge government programs.
So on one hand with the Republicans I can have more of my money, but be worried about saying something government 'censors' don't like.
Or, with the Dems, I can have less money, and a slower economy, but I will be able to drink, smoke weed, and buy Catcher in the Rye, without fear of reprisal from "fingers" of the government.
Posted by psugrad98 at September 8, 2006 12:12 PM | TrackBack
