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Originally Posted by Griff

lack of comittment to property rights which are fundamental to personal freedom. How free can you be without any assurance that you'll keep what you create?

None of the parties, not even the Libertarians, will let you "keep what you create". Government has to be funded, and that funding has to come from what the people in the country create (Unless we go back to the plundering of other countries as a revenue stream). The difference is only in how taxes are distributed, and what the total is, not whether you get to keep what you create.

This gets to the two competing visions of freedom. The libertarians are freedom of people and the Democrats are the freedom from people.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

The Dems ran a long way from their roots as the limited government party when they had to distance themselves from racism.

As the Democrats distanced themselves, the Republicans sidled up close. I don't see that as a net loss for the Democrats.