Politics, in a sense, boils down to this one question:
What do you rate as more important...the individual or the society?
A: The individual? You tend to be a capitalist.
B: The society? You favor socialism/communism.
How, you may wonder, can Obama and so many of his appointees lie so frequently to the American people? Easy. Because they are in the B group.
Why does the American Constitution speak so much of liberty and individual rights? Because the Founders were in the A group.
Are the two groups reconcilable? No. Can you have one leg in the A group and one in the B group? You can try, but that would make you an ambivalent, pussyfooting equivocator not to be listened to nor taken seriously.
So where are the Dems and the Repubs? Both in the B group, which is why the country is turning socialist at such a rapid rate.
Well, which is more important, the individual or society? The answer to that depends on whether you think there are objective truths in the world or whether you think it is all a matter of opinion.
If the latter, pick your group.
If the former, consider this: there can be individuals without a society, but there can be no society without individuals.
Hmmmmmm.
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