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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (9807)2/2/2011 10:12:35 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) of 10087
 
I looked at the wikipedia entry you links and found the part where he stated that as a country we are at a fork in the road that leads to either
1) a society based on individualism and enterprise, or
2) a Euro-style society built around big government.

Looking at the evolution of the two major political parties over the last 35 years, and at the way gov't takes in and spends money, I think the path has been chosen. The voters, or more properly the legislators who were voted in, have massively increased government's role as a guarantor of social security in the broader sense. We're already there imo.

From a practical perspective - It seems once a government-run and -funded support program is in, it's extremely difficult to remove. Cutting Social Security or school funding or even ag subsidies is political kryptonite. Beneficiaries develop a sense of entitlement. This might not be the best or easiest way to run a country, but any legislator who seriously believes that an entitlement won't be permanent once instituted is either dumb or crooked - or simply holding their ears shut lalalalalaaa.
The tea partiers would like to change that. The fact that they haven't generated a detailed plan for how to accomplish that within a realpolitical framework suggests to me that their movement is an emotional one based on a sense of ideological betrayal. If it were rooted in reason, they'd have an agends that they could articulate and present. All I've heard though is a stubborn stand on principles that sound noble when listened to with the right ear. When I add my left ear, I notice the lack of specifics. I'd have more respect for the tea partiers if they had reality-testable specifics ... especially to address the fallout from the disaster that has come of Keynesian economic practice.
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