The only thing that pat is correct about these days is his insisteance that there is a demographic problem and that we, a nation, are not sustaining our population with higher birth rates. But his ideas about how government should get involved are always off the mark. Pat’s a statist who disdains markets. He’s a central planning type who only pays liberty lip-service as long as it helps him make a point — then he drops it (embrace of liberty) like a bad habit. He’s the nanny-state extoller within a party that is supposed to champion for limited government. Defend him if you wish but he is like the anti-Reagan these days.
The ones in power today are 'central planning' types. They do, in fact, believe in centralized government. States rights are anethema to them.
The ones running (both the Democrats and the Republicrats) are with one exception Central Planners All (like the USSR.)