re: #117 jamesfirecat

My question is, who is even making gun control arguments anymore? I don’t remember any of the major democratic presidents doing it…

Gun control is like abortion. It will never go away. The issue may not be on the front burner, but it is always there.

My point is that liberals share a significant conservative ideal- the less government, the better.

That isn’t to say classical liberals were against government involvement in society. They certainly were. The classical liberals however understood the ‘hand up’ was a far better idea than the ‘hand out’. The Peace Corps and Vista were magnificent examples of that. Before that, there was the Roosevelt’s WPA which in my opinion was the single greatest government program in history- anywhere.

Today, progressives tend to favor hand outs (and in a sense, who can blame them? They are votes bought and paid for) which in no way resemble liberal ideals. Today, progressivism encourages identity politics and the subdividing of ‘special groups’.

I can point you to something i wrote on the subject a while back, if you like.