| | I agreed with most of what Prager said about the left, but his defense of the right? Not so much. Take this statement:
"The left is far more interested in power than the right is. This, too, should have been self-evident, but finally, people are realizing that those who are preoccupied with creating an ever-expanding state are obviously far more interested in amassing power than those who want a smaller state."
The right -- or at least elected Republican politicians -- are not interested in a smaller state. For the last century, the federal government has expanded in EVERY presidential administration. When Republicans had one-party control of the White House and Congress, did the federal government shrink? No, we got a brand new health care entitlement program, a vast increase in bureaucracy, payroll, and regulation, and a shredding of the Bill of Rights.
The only part of the above statement that is true is that the left has an even bigger appetite for government than the right, but voting for right-wingers will only get us to the same destination at a somewhat slower pace.
Until enough people have the epiphany that the two major parties, and the left and the right, all support vastly expanded government (or until the events in Atlas Shrugged happen and force that epiphany upon the survivors), we will keep getting more of the same.
We will keep getting screwed until more people adopt libertarian or Objectivist POVs.
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For the first time in their lives, millions of Americans are coming to understand the left. It is difficult to overstate how important this is. For decades, the left has largely controlled the news media, the arts, the universities and the entertainment media. And vast numbers of Americans have imbibed these leftist messages and the leftist critiques of conservatives. What these Americans have never been able to do is to see what the left would actually do if in power.
