(June 2, 2011 at 12:59 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(June 2, 2011 at 12:39 pm)Tiberius Wrote: In the Obama administration, Libertarians have started moving back to voting for the Republican party, possibly because of the whole "big government" position of Obama, and the fact that the tea party are considered a growing movement within the republican party, with a "small government" message.
The Tea Party is only about "small government" with regard to corporate regulation.
I have to agree with this. When most people in the U.S. say 'small government,' it really just means they want the government to do what they want it to do. The phrase 'small government' in the U.S. is a smokescreen like 'family values.' They don't mean what people are trying to portray them as.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
