Disturbing News

Well I think it's official now, most Democrats either support Communism actively or are tricked in doing so. On the other side fair less members of the GOP support the idea of making a socialist society then handing complete control to our government.

This all comes from a recent story on slashdot that informs me that about 30% of Democrats support a fairness (read censorship) doctrine and Democrats oppose government fiddling with internet content to a much less extent. Now mind you only 61% of Republicans oppose government censorship of the internet-which is far far too low.

I know that these are small little things, but this is America. We are capitalist. That's how we were started, that's how we succeeded, that's how we need to stay. I really don't like this growing trend toward socialism and communist controls. The government doesn't need to be showing up around here and telling me what to do. The federal governments exists purely to defend me against foreign attack, make the states play nice with one another, and maintain the infrastructure in the way that I as a tax paying voting America tell them too. All these "lets make life better for the average person" sort of things end up alienating those who aren't average. There also make you wonder just how far the feds will take there power.

Now don't get this all wrong and peg me as a nut job building up my personal arsenal waiting for the days that the feds show up at my door so I can start a week long standoff. Rather I am a college student-the sort of person that is supposed to be especially liberal. I like the federal government-I just think we need to remember why they exist and stop expecting the feds to take care of all of us individually while not spending negative money. If we want America to prosper we need to give the federal government a job that it can actually do then we the people need to pick up the rest and actually take care of ourselves.