For serious. I lean libertarian (in the "social liberalism but fiscal restraint" way, not the "we'd make Ayn Rand required reading in all school curricula if the very existence of school curricula weren't an intolerable infringement of personal liberty" way), and side-eye the American left's tendency to slap band-aids on giant hemorrhaging wounds and then descend into magical thinking and demagoguery with whoever's not happy about it. But man, at least they're trying, and they're more-or-less what it says on the tin. I'll take "overtax and overspend, partly on social programs ranging from vital to benignly ineffectual, partly on boondoggles for assorted rent-seeking interest groups" over "undertax, overspend on the military-industrial complex and boondoggles for assorted really scary rent-seeking interest groups, justify it by pinching pennies from school-lunch programs, try to ram Christian fundamentalism into everyone's private lives, and cap it all off by claiming to be the party of small government." Aside from being a far more unpleasant form of fiscal irresponsibility, that's just insulting.
Ditto regulation. Does anyone really approve of the half-assed thickets of red tape that emerged from the Democrats' attempts to reform health care and financial markets? I doubt it, but I sure as shit am not going to vote them out when the Republicans are waiting in the wings to craft efficient legislation that will neatly rig the game in favor of financiers and oligopolists.
Unusually enough for Rush Limbaugh, that article would almost be a seductive line of reasoning if the only major alternative to the Democrats actually represented "hard work, stick-to-itiveness, self-reliance" and all the rest. But the Republicans have jumped off Batshit Cliff and are too busy rolling around in the guano cushion at the bottom, trading vitriol about everyone up above who hasn't taken the plunge, to represent much of anything. Rush accusing Obama voters of believing in Santa Claus is, well, a bit rich.
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Ditto regulation. Does anyone really approve of the half-assed thickets of red tape that emerged from the Democrats' attempts to reform health care and financial markets? I doubt it, but I sure as shit am not going to vote them out when the Republicans are waiting in the wings to craft efficient legislation that will neatly rig the game in favor of financiers and oligopolists.
Unusually enough for Rush Limbaugh, that article would almost be a seductive line of reasoning if the only major alternative to the Democrats actually represented "hard work, stick-to-itiveness, self-reliance" and all the rest. But the Republicans have jumped off Batshit Cliff and are too busy rolling around in the guano cushion at the bottom, trading vitriol about everyone up above who hasn't taken the plunge, to represent much of anything. Rush accusing Obama voters of believing in Santa Claus is, well, a bit rich.