Blame Republicans . . . by Eric Peters

With a few notable exceptions, most Republicans have been and are just as socialist or collectivist as Democrats. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

The truth is often uncomfortable. Here’s one of them: The reason why the country is on the verge of a tipping point – of tipping over into overt socialism, a country in which everything is planned and so controlled by the people who control the apparatus of government – is because Republicans wanted it that way.

That is not, of course, what Republicans have said they wanted. They always say they want “less” or “limited” government. Republicans have apparently never read Lysander Spooner, who explained why “limited” government always becomes unlimited government. Because how does one “limit” what one has already accepted as fundamentally “necessary”?

Principles might help – but Republicans have never had those. They have rationalizations instead.

They never oppose taxes as such, for example., That is to say, they do not oppose the use of government’s legalized power to take people’s money and jail or even kill them – legally – if they attempt to defend themselves against legalized, strong-armed robbery – if it the money taken from people is less than Leftists would take or it is used for purposes Republicans consider to be worthy of forcing people to “pay their fair share” toward financing. That is to say, they have the same principles as socialists. Which is why Republicans always lose to socialists. Are always trying to explain how they would manage socialism more efficiently.

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