I'm independent politically and when I vote. So, I feel no strong allegiance to any political party.
Nevertheless, I must say that I find it difficult to disagree with this Red State post about the disparities between Republicans and Democrats. The glow about Republicans is a bit too rosy; I could offer items where plenty of improvement could be made in recent years. Still - can many of you disagree with how much the Democrats wish to restrict the freedoms and ability to choose of Americans?
I can't.
When individuals are allowed to choose for themselves, they take an ownership interest in their choices. One of the greatest failures of the present administration has been not aggressively communicating and supporting the President’s idea of an ownership society, which contains at its core the revolutionary undercurrent that motivated America’s founding: that each individual holds within themselves the capacity and right to self-government.
This is an enormous contrast with the Democrats. In almost every area of their agenda, they are opposed to self-government. They advocate less freedom for the individual to direct their lives – they remove the Freedom of Choice from the American citizen, and give it instead to bureacracies and agencies and the many eddies and tidepools of the federal government, all managed with the efficiency and responsibility of your local Department of Motor Vehicles.
RedState friend Jon Henke reminded us
a few days ago about the left’s agenda — or at least, the agenda the left is willing to blog about. You can take a gander here