Laws dictating control of women’s bodies. Laws to control gender and relationship rights. Laws to ban books. (Math is racist? really? Must be those non-binary numbers and use of Arabic numerals.)
So much for the party of “personal liberty” and “get the government off our backs.”
Like almost everything else that comes out of right-wing extremist conservatives, the values of freedom and liberty they give lip service to are diametrically opposite of policies they actually try to enact.
Conservatives say they want “mall government,” but in reality they only want “small government” for corporations and the few richest elites who already have the most.
But conservatives want Big Intrusive Government to micromanage your personal life.
It is Democrats and PROgressives who want to get Big Intrusive Government off the backs of everyday people. Yes, we want BIG SAFETY NET that protects those who need it and maintains order, but we want government to stay the hell out of our private lives.
Democrats and PROgressives want government that will address legitimate issues of public policy to protect workers and consumers — from invasion, from crime, and yes, from corporate bullies that would dominate them. And yes, that “public health and safety” includes the right not to die because you can’t afford medical care. And we want government to manage and develop our shared PUBLIC environment and infrastructure.
But we also want Big Intrusive Government to stay the hell out of our private lives, including private relationships (dictate who you can or can’t marry), private medical choices (reproductive choices, medical marijuana, end of life choices, stem cell therapies, gender-identity care) or try to force PRIVATE religion into PUBLIC policy or subsidize it with special tax advantages (socialized religion).
Laws dictating control of women’s bodies. Laws to control gender and relationship rights. Laws to ban books. (Math is racist? really? Must be those non-binary numbers and use of Arabic numerals.)
So much for the party of “personal liberty” and “get the government off our backs.”
Like almost everything else that comes out of right-wing extremist conservatives, the values of freedom and liberty they give lip service to are diametrically opposite of policies they actually try to enact.
Conservatives say they want “mall government,” but in reality they only want “small government” for corporations and the few richest elites who already have the most.
But conservatives want Big Intrusive Government to micromanage your personal life.
It is Democrats and PROgressives who want to get Big Intrusive Government off the backs of everyday people. Yes, we want BIG SAFETY NET that protects those who need it and maintains order, but we want government to stay the hell out of our private lives.
Democrats and PROgressives want government that will address legitimate issues of public policy to protect workers and consumers — from invasion, from crime, and yes, from corporate bullies that would dominate them. And yes, that “public health and safety” includes the right not to die because you can’t afford medical care. And we want government to manage and develop our shared PUBLIC environment and infrastructure.
But we also want Big Intrusive Government to stay the hell out of our private lives, including private relationships (dictate who you can or can’t marry), private medical choices (reproductive choices, medical marijuana, end of life choices, stem cell therapies, gender-identity care) or try to force PRIVATE religion into PUBLIC policy or subsidize it with special tax advantages (socialized religion).