Reply #5: "limited government" is NOT the same as "small government." [View All]

There is no "limited government" advocate in the Republican party today. None. They are rabid advocates of overwhelming abuses of Constitutional limits on federal power, from the abrogation of human rights worldwide to the intrusions on individual sovereignty within the U.S. The neocon addiction to power and "might makes right" has resulted in the largest militarist state in the history of the world and the longest implacable war on the working class in our nation's history since slavery.

The only "limited government" advocates are on the left ... and it's by no means a shared perspective even on the left.

Likewise, there is no "small government" advocate on either the right or the left. Those who hurl (or run from) the epithets of "soft on crime" or "soft on defense" have created the largest prison population and criminalized class in the world along with a Police State Industry with unconstrained appetites and have created the most all-consuming Military-Industrial Complex in world history. At the same time, those who profit from sickness and injury are a plague, making inevitable the nationalization of health care. Sooner or later, the rampant abuses and profiteering will make "Socialized Medicine" unavoidable.