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You forgot NPA - No Party Affiliation.
Classify me as a cross between "Conservative Libertarian" and "Anarchist" - using the classic definition for "Anarchist."
"Anarchy" is defined as "an absence of externally-imposed government or social order" - in other words, ruling by "social contract" rather than by laws and regulations.
The "social contract" is the body of unwritten rules governing human behaviour and interaction. No-one tells you how to do it, you learn it as you go. The problem with the idea of anarchy is simple - the "social contract" has been decaying for the last forty years, most sharply in the last ten. This false sense of entitlement we're raising children with is going to do more damage to us than an overt war - I can damn near guarantee it.
If we DO have to have a government, it should be "small and inoffensive" internally - the minimum required to maintain social order and to provide for the common defense. Welfare isn't a part of my government, that's just socialism ("From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.") I'm seeing an awful lot of that from BOTH parties!
FDR was probably the beginning of the end. While he wasn't (I think) responsible for the Great Depression, he put a programme in place that hastened "social welfare" for years to come - Social Security.
The Social Security programme was NOT meant to last more than five years, which is why the system is "broken" now. It just wasn't designed to last this long. However, in providing "welfare" to retirees, everyone else started clamouring "Me too!" - and look where it's gotten us.
Complete revokation of welfare may not be the answer - as usual, the answer is going to be somewhere in the middle. However, we should be getting something BACK for all the public dollars spent on welfare - bringing back something like FDR's WPA (one programme he came up with that I DO agree with!) would be helpful. If you don't have any other skills, and you're on the dole, you can still push a shovel - or, go to school and LEARN a skill or three.
As far as the lines being blurred between parties - so true. "Republicrat" or "Demican" are better names for them than "Republican" or "Democrat" anymore, y'ask me. It's just a matter of which side is more liberal/socialist than the other (but both are, to a certain degree.) OTOH, I can't bring myself to vote for a Democrat candidate for anything anymore - simply because I don't agree at all with their EXTENT.
"Spirit of '76 - Re-elect Nobody!"
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Classify me as a cross between "Conservative Libertarian" and "Anarchist" - using the classic definition for "Anarchist."
"Anarchy" is defined as "an absence of externally-imposed government or social order" - in other words, ruling by "social contract" rather than by laws and regulations.
The "social contract" is the body of unwritten rules governing human behaviour and interaction. No-one tells you how to do it, you learn it as you go. The problem with the idea of anarchy is simple - the "social contract" has been decaying for the last forty years, most sharply in the last ten. This false sense of entitlement we're raising children with is going to do more damage to us than an overt war - I can damn near guarantee it.
If we DO have to have a government, it should be "small and inoffensive" internally - the minimum required to maintain social order and to provide for the common defense. Welfare isn't a part of my government, that's just socialism ("From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.") I'm seeing an awful lot of that from BOTH parties!
FDR was probably the beginning of the end. While he wasn't (I think) responsible for the Great Depression, he put a programme in place that hastened "social welfare" for years to come - Social Security.
The Social Security programme was NOT meant to last more than five years, which is why the system is "broken" now. It just wasn't designed to last this long. However, in providing "welfare" to retirees, everyone else started clamouring "Me too!" - and look where it's gotten us.
Complete revokation of welfare may not be the answer - as usual, the answer is going to be somewhere in the middle. However, we should be getting something BACK for all the public dollars spent on welfare - bringing back something like FDR's WPA (one programme he came up with that I DO agree with!) would be helpful. If you don't have any other skills, and you're on the dole, you can still push a shovel - or, go to school and LEARN a skill or three.
As far as the lines being blurred between parties - so true. "Republicrat" or "Demican" are better names for them than "Republican" or "Democrat" anymore, y'ask me. It's just a matter of which side is more liberal/socialist than the other (but both are, to a certain degree.) OTOH, I can't bring myself to vote for a Democrat candidate for anything anymore - simply because I don't agree at all with their EXTENT.
"Spirit of '76 - Re-elect Nobody!"
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