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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
ok will, since rb posited the point that it's dishonest to speak for majorities and their viewpoints, i'll have to ask you to more specifically address the statement of how few of those constituents and what is their understanding about what a smaller government would mean.
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Sit down with maybe a dozen of your closest, conservative friends and ask them to hash out what the US would look like if we only had private schools, only had private roads, only had private fire and police protection, only had private science and art, only had to trust food and drug manufacturers to self-regulate when it came to quality, only had maybe 1 or 2 mega corporations from which to get any kind of news and information, only had as much internet as our providers want us to have, etc.
Small government sounds good when you think the government only ever fucks up, but the truth is that most things fuck up, be they public or private. I can't even begin to list the unbelievable market failures in the history of our country, let alone the history of mankind. And bigger still, I can't even begin to describe what could have happened in the US had it not been for government looking out for people.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Wait...before we go off on our own respective moral outrages, aren't these tea parties merely tax "revolts"?
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I think you're getting the recent tea parties mixed up with the original, which was about taxation without representation. These new ones are about a plethora of things that the right are simply mad about.