Pay attention left wingers. This guy has your best interest in mind, and he's got it right - "by threat of force or penalty" is uniquely un-American....... Left wingers just LOVE power and control..... And that's part of their problem.
I was wondering when someone from the left would talk some sense..... Well here it is. Will the nuts listen?
http://www.hoover.org/research/three-democrat-errors
I believe there are two related reasons. First, the United States is a right-of-center republic that moves to the left mainly in crises. Second, a central, dominant idea is popular sovereignty. Our founding fathers vested sovereignty in the voters, meaning voters choose legislators to carry out the programs that voters want. Voters make major decisions by electing representatives who enact their ideas into laws. This is the basis of a government of laws and not of individuals.
Which brings us to the second failure of the Democrats: They have been replacing popular sovereignty–America’s heritage—with rule by experts who claim to know what is right for the populace. That violates the voters’ belief in their role and their right to decide how the country is ruled. Instead of popular sovereignty and the rule of law, we get numerous regulations chosen by officials. That’s government by rulers, not by rule of law. The so-called Affordable Care Act is an example of the choices made for the public that are costly, unpopular, and politically toxic. And that is just one example of the regulated economy created by the Obama administration. In the 2010, 2014, and 2016 elections, voters signaled that they did not want such an economy. They wanted popular sovereignty and the rule of law.
But instead of popular sovereignty, the Democrats gave them government by coercion. If a voter rejected the choices offered by the Affordable Care Act, he or she paid a fine; party leaders extended many rights to gay individuals and even decided where some children went to the bathroom over the outcry of parents and individual schools. This is government by authorities—select men and women—not government by the people. A free people rejects the loss of sovereignty, as they have done.
I was wondering when someone from the left would talk some sense..... Well here it is. Will the nuts listen?
http://www.hoover.org/research/three-democrat-errors
I believe there are two related reasons. First, the United States is a right-of-center republic that moves to the left mainly in crises. Second, a central, dominant idea is popular sovereignty. Our founding fathers vested sovereignty in the voters, meaning voters choose legislators to carry out the programs that voters want. Voters make major decisions by electing representatives who enact their ideas into laws. This is the basis of a government of laws and not of individuals.
Which brings us to the second failure of the Democrats: They have been replacing popular sovereignty–America’s heritage—with rule by experts who claim to know what is right for the populace. That violates the voters’ belief in their role and their right to decide how the country is ruled. Instead of popular sovereignty and the rule of law, we get numerous regulations chosen by officials. That’s government by rulers, not by rule of law. The so-called Affordable Care Act is an example of the choices made for the public that are costly, unpopular, and politically toxic. And that is just one example of the regulated economy created by the Obama administration. In the 2010, 2014, and 2016 elections, voters signaled that they did not want such an economy. They wanted popular sovereignty and the rule of law.
But instead of popular sovereignty, the Democrats gave them government by coercion. If a voter rejected the choices offered by the Affordable Care Act, he or she paid a fine; party leaders extended many rights to gay individuals and even decided where some children went to the bathroom over the outcry of parents and individual schools. This is government by authorities—select men and women—not government by the people. A free people rejects the loss of sovereignty, as they have done.
