Advocating Liberty, the Rights of the Individual, Making the Government Subservient to Free Men

[roberth]

http://straightlinelogic.com/2014/10...y-robert-gore/

By 1835, when Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of Democracy in America, it was clear to this astute foreign observer that something extraordinary was happening in America. Freedom was breeding a new kind of person—the autonomous and empowered individual, who wanted the government to maintain public order and not do much else. The flow of immigrants from Europe, which would later become a flood from all over the world, recognized an unprecedented opportunity to live their lives and improve their situations almost completely unhindered by the governing power. This was the bedrock of American exceptionalism: freedom and its consequent opportunities.

I found this interesting, actually much more than interesting, thought some of you might want to read it too.

If you vote (D) don't bother, this article runs against everything you believe and/or vote for.

[GunsRBadMMMMKay]

The biggest problem with the masses accepting those ideals is that to embrace liberty and a demand your rights be recognized, one must accept personal responsibility. If one is responsible for their own selves and actions thereof then you can't expect the dotguv/public at large to take care of you if you make poor choices ( or none at all and follow blindly).

[HoneyBadger]

The biggest problem with the masses accepting those ideals is that to embrace liberty and a demand your rights be recognized, one must accept personal responsibility. If one is responsible for their own selves and actions thereof then you can't expect the dotguv/public at large to take care of you if you make poor choices ( or none at all and follow blindly).

Hit the nail on the head.