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Actually yes, I was going to bring this up in my last post - the religious right and the nanny state left have quite a bit in common. They both shove their beliefs down other's throats.
I don't care for the nanny state myself, but the difference between nanny state and religion is that you can PROVE reasons for the nanny state.
what about not being allowed to plant a garden in your front yard.
nanny state is everywhere and not a republican/dem lib/conservative mindset.
the same liberals who dont want you to eat salt are the same conservatives who want to ban types of music or wearing clothes a certain way.
Religious right, like I said before. They are a shrinking portion of the conservative base. Fiscal conservatives and libertarians, a large portion of the right wing, are anti-statist. I couldn't say the same about the left wing of the 21st century.
I don't care for the nanny state myself, but the difference between nanny state and religion is that you can PROVE reasons for the nanny state.
That's not the point. You can not prove why the state should limit my freedoms, period.
For example, you can prove that fast food is bad for you, however you can not prove that it is in my best interests to not eat it. Maybe I would be a happier person being fat and unhealthy. Not likely but who is the state to make that decision?
That's the problem with any kind of nanny-state. You can "prove" what's good and what's bad, but at the end of the day "good" and "bad" is only defined by your personal opinion.
I think liberals are genuinely more open to new ways to construct society to get closer to our ideals. They are not slaves to tradition, if that tradition is bad. That is not to say that hyperpartisan liberals are open-minded about how to live life. The "politically correct" folks are slaves in the same way as religious. We see the same self-righteousness emerging the further we get from the center on either side.
Oh yeah? Talk about changing SS or Medicare and liberals are the most reactionary folks in the room.
I have respect for classic liberalism. Without classical liberalism we wouldn't have ended the "tradition" of institutionalized racism, etc.
The thing I don't like is what "the left" has become today (political correctness, nanny state tendencies, etc). It strikes me as the exact opposite of what liberalism really means.
Liberalism has been hijacked by Progressivism, which teeters on Fascism.
No, you are making things up. People call Ron Paul racist for saying stuff like "But I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws," or for having articles like "The Coming Race War" published in the Ron Paul Political Report. Or perhaps I'm wrong. Please show me an instance of someone calling Ron Paul a racist for his desire to end the IRS.
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