The Democrats Have A Great Point Too?

To be honest, you never really hear the Democrats' side of the story much because there really isn't much of one. You do, though, learn a lot from looking for what should be there, but clearly is not. At best, Democrats seem to congeal around the notion of a Santa Claus gov't that can provide wonderful presents for everyone, or at least to those anointed ones who receive them. You don't hear them discuss the rationale for this much, in large part, because it quickly becomes intuitively obvious, even to them, that everyone will eventually want to receive rather than give the presents. And worse, their approach encourages electoral larceny, i.e., voting to get in the group that receives the presents. It does not encourage voting for the common good. Failing that, outright civil war may erupt, again, over who gets or gives the presents.

The Republican theory is the exact opposite, of course. In their capitalist, and coercion free system you are not entitled to a present worth even one penny until you first produce a good or service that a saintly consumer is freely willing to buy, before he buys any other product available in the entire world with his limited funds. Every human being, then, is required as a matter of basic culture to give, long before he or she has the ability to receive. We learn that giving comes first; that it alone is the cherished, primary value on which cultural life depends.

If you doubt what business is, then start a business. You will give and give long before you ever receive. If you haven't got a competitive world class present to offer, then quickly get down on your knees to thank and reward those who do. The products of Republican businesses sustain, improve, and define your standard of living, make possible and support your gov't and to a large extent, your entire life, whether you know it or not. What they give and teach is love and prosperity rather than the class warfare and poverty Democratic Santa Claus gov't inevitably has wrought.

Nevertheless, a particularly odd but thoughtful Democrat will sometimes see the need to rationalize his Santa Claus theory of gov't rather than confront the idea that his mere feelings alone may not be an adequate thing on which to base gov't. Marcos Moulitas is such a queer Democrat. He is a lawyer (seven years of education after high school) and publisher of the Daily Kos which is reportedly read or contributed to by 500,000 lost souls every week. He gets book contracts from NYC publishers, writes for national MSM magazines, and holds a yearly convention at which Democratic Presidential hopefuls appear. By any standards he should be among the best qualified to explain the so called, "Democratic philosophy". But of course a man who, bizarrely, describes himself as a libertarian Democrat can not.

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