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A Must Read
Friday, November 11, 2005   By: Juan Paxety

What's the difference

Here's a must read for all you Democrats and Republicans out there - The Bidinatto Blog asks the same question George Wallace asked in 1968 - Is there a nickle's worth of difference betwen the parties?

To America's Founders, such as Washington, government potentially was "a fearful Master," and thus was to be strictly, constitutionally limited to a single task: that of protecting the rights of individuals -- period. But to today's Left and the Right, government is a much-prized behavioral bludgeon, to be seized and wielded against the individual without legal restraint, in order to pound him into compliance with their own value schemes.

To the Left, government should whip individuals into collective lockstep regarding its PC-egalitarian agenda on such issues as smoking, diets, guns, cars, nature-worship, land use, political speech and rhetoric, equality of income and "access" to things that don't belong to you, drafting kids for "national service," using schools to push PC propaganda, etc.

To the Right, government should whip individuals into collective lockstep regarding its traditional moral agenda, including abortion, sex, Darwin, cultural speech and rhetoric, marriage, national demographic purity, drafting kids for military service, using schools to push religious values, etc.

Neither side wants a government of limited powers, and rejects the initiation of force against others. Neither side respects individual rights, and rejects using the "fearful" power of government to compel the independent individual to toe its party line. Neither side recognizes property rights, and rejects the redistributionist welfare state.

More fundamentally, neither side rejects the cannibalistic "morality" of sacrificing the individual to the group.

Read the whole thing - and thanks to Judy for the link.

 

 

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