Reply #73: Sorry to see the knee-jerkers try to run you out

[Cats Against Frist]

I consider myself a Democrat, very much, and I am a small-government supporter, and I am also against giant social programs on the federal level, and the concentration of power within the hands of a few, at the center of a large bureaucracy.

That said, you have been fed some seriously whack talking points, by the right. I am pro-gun, and feel perfectly comfortable in the Democratic Party. I AM a libertarian, a registered independent, and vote Democratic, almost always. How do I square it?

Well, the right is certainly not for me, because I hate money worship, religion, conservative social institutions and all the other myth and magical realism bullshit that accompanies the right. I do, however, believe in more "personal responsibility," which doesn't just include the workers, but also the company owners, bosses, community citizens, families, etc. I got tired, as a Dem, of trying to save a bloated, lazy and apathetic middle class from itself. I refuse to blame the wealthy, solely, for the state of things, as I feel that it's a partnership, in crime, between the masses AND the corporations. When the GOP swept into all three branches of government, I realized exactly what "authoritarianism," is, and it's no prettier coming from the left, than the right.

When you say "small government," DUers will call you a racist. When you say "libertarian," they'll call you selfish. I consider myself VERY liberal, VERY leftist, VERY progressive, VERY radical -- I am just not comfortable with centralized power. I see community as subjective, and local, btween people who hold common goals and common values -- much like the borderless nations of the East, before the imperialists cut the fake borders.

The national consciousness makes us lazy, complacent, apathetic and stupid, de-creases our efficacy, and creates a huge, distant bureaucracy that we feel we have no control over -- and which can be usurped by the likes of the assholes we have in there, now.

There are many people here, with the same view as you. They're generally much more rational than the knee-jerkers.