Quote:Like everything else the devil is in the details. Sometimes its the how that turns off the right not the idea itself.

 

I don't think the right are too concerned with details.  A lot of them will gladly give government assistance to other countries, then say "Nope, can't help our own citizens.  They'll become dependent!"   You'll also hear them say "Corporations are people"  and "Limiting what corporations can do is limiting free speech!  Stop neutering the first amendment (except when we want to neuter it ourselves)  If anything I think both parties aren't concerned much with the details.


It wasn't that long ago that I considered myself a Republican.  Ronald Reagan was my hero.  This isn't the party of Reagan anymore, and Trickle Down Economics doesn't work.    Part of what helped me realize this was the Tea Party.  

 

FDR (who is a man I disagree with on many things, and who I felt wasn't as great of a president as he's made out to be, as I've said on here before) once said it well:


 

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The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group.”

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