[Me] Yeah, you did. Thanks for playing. [You] Then point it out, genius. And don’t thank me for something I’m not doing.
Okay, then. Here we go.
To: lentulusgracchus
>> Quit worrying about the Right.
The issue concerns the overbearing control of govt. The bureaucratic machine is large and dangerous regardless of who’s driving it.
A small, conservative government is what we want.
With "regardless of who's driving it", you set up a moral equation between large, bureaucratic governments run by a) conservatives or b) liberals. But conservatives have a much different approach to government and won't grow it, whereas liberals will grow it at every opportunity, to deepen the dependency of voters on politicians -- or as the liberal pols would put it, "making government relevant".
There is no moral equivalence there, and yet you pronounced |big government run by bad liberals| = |big government run by conservatives|.
Satisfied?
>> With “regardless of who’s driving it”, you set up a moral equation between large, bureaucratic governments run
I explicitly exclude the political attribute, but you insist I’m making a false moral assertion based on party policy. Give it up.
So you believe it’s a liberal job to grow government and your job to KEEP IT FROM SHRINKING??? That’s what you said. I WANT GOVERNMENT AT ALL LEVELS TO SHRINK at least to its Constitutional limits. I don’t care WHO runs big government, I DON’T WANT IT. EVER.
Sure there is. Maybe not right away, but it will happen.
Power Corrupts.
Look at the steadfast and ongoing resistance of the GOP, the howling of every COngressman and woman on Capitol Hill for investigations and the arrest of those responsible for the most blatantly corrupt administration in this nation's history.
OOps. Nevermind. The silence is deafening.
Only a small few have dared make any noise at all.
Besides, if they are really Conservatives, there wouldn't be a Big government.
The problem is too damned much power concentrated in the hands of a relative few, reaching into your light sockets, your toilet tank, deciding if you can fill in a hole in your yard, snooping on your phone calls and commerce, the evil isn't who controls the BIG GOVERNMENT, it is that is is BIG at all.