Originally posted by Emperordmb
And honestly that's one of the main reasons I left the left aside from their identity politics, and a realization of the logical economic conclusions of the Lockean principles I ascribed to. The transformation of the government into the agent of responsibility rather than the individual is something that doesn't sit right with me.My conviction is that the government's role is to secure people's liberties so they may have a private life, and that it is the role of the culture to encourage responsibility on the part of the individual in their private lives. Increasingly what I've been seeing however is the encouragement of a libertine culture suggesting that outside the bounds of government an individual should be encouraged to do whatever the **** they want, and that the government should invade people's liberties to reign in the excesses.
In other words, you are a student of the Michale P. Keaton school of rebellion. Got it.