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Originally Posted by frodly
I always thought the republican platform was supposed to be based on limited government, states rights, and a non-interventionist foreign policy! But that all changed over the last 50 years! That helps illustrate my point. Starting a war to spread freedom and democracy is a spectacularly liberal thing to do. Nation building is another thing conservatives supposedly opposed! But when a republican president proposed these options, all the conservatives jumped right in line, blindly accepting it! Then liberals who have supported this type of thing before, had to jump in line denouncing it! Why is that? It is like a form of brainwashing! It is like in 1984 when they change who they are fighting in the middle of a war rally, and no one seems to mind they hate the new enemy just as strongly!
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Good point. I would be voting for the GOP every time if they actually followed the principles of their rhetoric. But once elected, they expand the power of federal government more than the "liberals" they criticize for being "socialist" (and socialism is all about doing what the GOP has done for the last eight years: expanding government power).
It's time for us to ask the money question: who are the REAL socialists? Under Bush, the federal government began tapping our phone conversations and internet messaging while trying to kill the democratic process: that sounds more like the former U.S.S.R. than any policy of Bill Clinton (the so-called liberal, but more fiscally conservative than most self-proclaimed conservative politicians).
Bill Clinton signed the largest exemption for property-based capital gains (
Tax Payer Relief Act of 1997), which allows you to keep up to $250,000 in profit ($500,000 for couples), if you sell your house that you've lived for a period of time. So again, perceptions about Democrats and socialism tend to be WAY off base if you do a bit of fact checking.