PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
I don't give a hoot in hell what anyone else does.Your misconception that you have only two choices is your problem...In fact, if it can be said that there are only two choices, and those "choices" are between statist party A and statist party B, then it's highly questionable as to whether you have any legitimate choice at all.
Some 98.6% of the vote went as follows, Dem-Repub:
Popular vote 69,456,897[1] 59,934,814[1]
Percentage 52.9%[1] 45.7%[1]
United States presidential election, 2008 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While technically you point is correct, one could be of the 1.4%, it is also an obfuscation.
If you don't care to make your distinction based on small differences,as is the way the system works,...don't vote.
I choose to make said distinctions in the hopes that more Americans make the same distinctinctions...i.e., November.
And, if you choose to throw a tantrum if you don't get your way, then you'd have to be a liberal.
You're either part of the problem or part of the solution.
Republicans have been part of the progressive statist problem since at least Teddy Roosevelt.
1. You know, this is just not right of you: forcing me to defend the statist TR....
but (sigh)...he was correct in that the American economic system was, and is, based on free market capitalism and free enterprise.
The problem at that time was not a command and control totalist, statist government, but rather the extreme capitalism that produced Morgan, Carnegie and Rockefeller...
(don't bring up their later-life charity)
and the monopolies and trusts that stultified competition.
2. Reform legislation passed during Roosevelts presidency was based not so much on the desire to break trusts up, he had initiated some forty suits, as to regulate them: more against wickedness than big business.
a. A successful antitrust suit against J. P. Morgans Northern Securities, which controlled the big western railroads.
b. In 1902 he threatened to intervene in the anthracite coal strike, forcing mine operators to accept arbitration.
c. Put an end to freight rebates by railroads.
d. The Hepburn Act strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission, which authorized the government to set railroad rates.
e. In 1906, the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed (scandals in meatpacking industry).
f. The Employers Liability and Safety Appliance Laws limited employees hours etc.
See James Chace, "1912"
3. Now here is where we run into problems: the reform agenda, and the evil that emanates from "The New Nationalism" speech...should have been sunsetted, once the necessary reforms were efficacious.
TR would have been remembered, by me at least, as a great man.
But no champion of regulated-capitalism has arisen to make great speeches to counter the rampaging progressivism, and its many offshoots.
(RR fought a differenct enemy)
So there...I defended statist TR...(forgive me for I have sinned...)