Let me offer a simple principle: if the government is getting bigger, you are getting less free. And any time it is offering anything for “free”, “guaranteeing” anything, or wanting to save you from something, there is a virtual certainty it is getting bigger. And once any government power is granted, it is very, very, very hard to reverse it. The loss of freedom, absent vigorous and organized opposition, is usually permanent. I understand that many people vote Democrat because they think it is a means by which the government “helps” people, but those same people, like me, resent continual intrusions into what should be personal choices. I will comment, again, that if the government is “helping”, it is controlling. What will unify all of us, be removing the areas of contention as problems, is a sound monetary policy. But I seem to be the only one thinking about this as THE core problem.
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