Vote for Candidates Who Distrust Government and Want To Limit It

The problem in America is that authoritarian tendencies are not noticed because while the groundwork has been laid, it's use has been thus far moderate: against fringe groups and scapegoats.

Another problem is the association of authoritarian governments with communism or dictatorships where it is obvious that people have no real power and dissent is punished by death. They live in the blissful assumption that all is well since no 'real Americans' are being rounded up and shot.

The other problem is the there is a genuine corrosion of respect for our countrymen.

Yeah, we may claim to be patriotic. But when the chips are down, too many of us rather use the heavy hand of government to coerce our way.

The only time rational fear of government seizes us is when the manifestations of what we oppose stand a chance of riding all that power we've so conveniently neglected to secure.

If we talk about the Democratic Party, we've come to expect more centralized government and more regulation.

But the biggest betrayal is the same trend from the Republican Party. Nobody has the guts to cut because it's political suicide.

A nanny state that 'protects' us from guns is no different than a nanny state that 'protects' us from drugs.

The chickens may as well pray for wolves to guard them from other wolves.

Vote for Candidates Who Distrust Government and Want To Limit It

Unfortunately, we don't have any good options. Obama, McCain, and Bob Barr (the real Bob Barr not the newly libertarian leaning one) are all big government guys. I'm writing in Ron Paul.

No, Sarah Palin is not a member of the elite. She didn't grow up studying how government could make our lives better (thank god). But I'd rather have her in charge than someone who is itching to social engineer me.

The Democrats are all about social engineering.

Doesn't sound like she grew up studying much of anything - including how best to keep your daughters from getting pregnant at a too-early age.

The Democrats are for engineering effective government. Without it we're at the mercy of the ExxonMobils and Wal-Marts of the will, which love weak government because it means that they can call the shots on how you live instead fo the people of the United States of America.

We don't need any more government than is absolutely necessary, but we need a whole lot more GOOD government than we have now. We were promised that Bush's compassionate conservatism would show us how this could be done. Instead we've already paid hundreds of billions of dollars to pump up Halliburton's profits from the Iraq war while cheating our veterans out of good health care, even worse healthcare benefits than eight years ago - if that could be imagined - incredible cronyism in our government that has allowed untold billions to be flushed away into the hands of corrupt government contractors, the utterly inept handling of Katrina and any number of easily surfaced examples of how the conservative revolution is a fraud. For conservatives it's all about allowing them's that's got the gold to make the rules and keeping everyone else as ignorant as possible.

Americans deserve far better than this - and they will get better if they vote for Democrats in the fall.