[eno_]

Which do you think would be the better culture:

a) A culture of maximum individual freedom and fairly minimal government, such as existed up to the New Deal?

or

b) A culture with lots of laws, police, and prisons, such as we have today?

[robertpaulsen]

What do you think is the better way to return to the pre-New Deal culture?

A) First, maximize individual freedom by eliminating laws against drugs, gambling, pornography, and prostitution. Then, after we've swelled the ranks of those using government services such as medical care, foodstamps, housing, welfare, etc., then we cut the legs out from under them by eliminating all these government social programs. Or

B) First, get rid of the nanny state that takes care of us from cradle to grave. Eliminate welfare, food stamps, HUD, Education, Commerce, and all these alphabet agencies. Then, and only then, do we look at changing our laws.

[headsonpikes]

We are certainly in a culture war right now, and have been so since WWI.

On the one hand are the state-worshipping utopians of all stripes, and on the other are we upholders of the English Enlightenment.

The other bunch are all socialists, at heart, even if they are soi-disant conservatives. ;^)