“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals…The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”
—President Ronald Reagan
The Gunslinger
http://www.ralphbristol.com/article.asp?colid=8937.....Local radio guy,with a piece about "How Much Interference Do You Want?".The crux of the matter...Government is the social instrument used to interfere with the natural course of events,and politics is the means of deciding to what level one is willing to cede this power to those in institutional power.I read Russell Kirk's books years ago,which led to a clarification of what I already believed,thru experience. Russell Kirk noted the similarites between control freaks on both the "left" and "right".Geez...it always comes down to who controls the semantics of debates,the premise of the debate.Modern, so-called "liberals" love that control,it allows them to pre-emptively strike against non-zombies...
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