RL,
Hopefully, I misunderstand your statement.
Please explain how this is a false choice. The goal of a socialists or "Liberal Democratic Party" is to make everyone equal. Telling young people the right thing to do is to "redistribute wealth" and reduce competition, is a lie. Free and moral men can see right through the lie, when their liberty is threatened.
The Liberal seeks to make the working class similar in all aspects of their daily lives. I used examples that fit the audience here at easttexashogdoggers by listing guns, dogs, truck’s, ATV’s, boats, and homes. These items are taken completely or regulated out of existence. Taken by tax or taken by force it's all the same in the end. That is what happens in when a government forces equality on it's subjects.
I don't see the false dichotomy or false choice in my statement. Enough has not been said.
First, I do not support either the D or R parties. I think both are annoying and neither reflect my values.
I do not think the goal of the D party is socialism. I think they are more inclined to help the downtrodden. But I do not think it is total socialism. I do not feel they are taking away your guns (I own several), dogs, trucks, ATVs, boats and certainly not your homes. That is the false dichotomy to which I referred. It is not a choice of extremes.
BTW, I think the Rs also believe in helping those struggling. I think they sometimes get portrayed as otherwise because they draw the line in a different area. It was GWB that expanded medicare in 2003 to cover the prescriptions of 40 million elderly. The estimated 10 year cost to taxpayers was over $500 billion. So I don't think the Rs are as callous as they are often portrayed.
