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» JohnCrandall - A Tough Call

In response to A Tough Call posted by pink101:

Yes, it is very complicated. I would have definitely qualified as a liberal up until about 1920 or so, but probably not so much after that. I'd qualify as a conservative if any politicians came out for putting things back like they were before the mid-20th Century, but that's not really what the conservatives are trying to conserve these days. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure what the conservatives are about at this point. Reagan made good sense, but none of them since him. See the problem is today's politicians do not argue about the form of the government, or really even its expenditures of the massive amounts of tax dollars it collects, all of that is pretty well tacitly agreed to by both parties. Massively wasteful bureaucratic tax and spend is the established norm (with the Keynesian justification that such "created" jobs are supposed to be good for the economy whether they produce anything or not). They argue over gay marriage, abortion, who can pray where, and a lot of other stuff which would be already taken care of with a broad (I would say liberal, but. . .) interpretation of our guaranteed rights such as the Supreme Court used to habitually make. Power to the people, and dare I say it . . . the States was the original American system, (see the Constitution, all powers not granted are reserved to the States and to the people).

-- posted by JohnCrandall