Kos Strikes Again

Given the choice between making their own moral decisions, or having Tom DeLay make them for them, most people will choose the former. Between that and corruption, we probably have 75 percent of the Democratic campaign for 2006.

-Markos Moulitsas Zúniga

Well, now if that isn't just the best example of a false dilemma I've seen in this year. Anyone who chooses a Democrat in order to be left alone to make their own moral choices is a straight-up fucking idiot. There may be cases where the Republican alternative is worse, but if your goal is to be free to exercise your judgement through your will, punching the Democrat ticket is only slightly more retarded than voting in the first place. Unless you are voting against the expansion of government powers (as I plan to do with the push for a a greater Austin smoking ban...*) voting for a candidate is a vote for imposing that candidates political views on the lawmaking process, and therefore, on your back.

If I had hair, I'd be tearing it out right now. Kos's hypocrisy continues to shine. If he seriously meant what he said in that first clause, he'd back down from his unwavering support of using the state to make moral (in the form of economic) choices for people, whether they want the help or not.

To fully illustrate this, here's a comment from Kos's post by The Truffle:

It would make a great ad!

And we wouldn't need to invoke poor Terri Schiavo directly.

Picture the ad...

"They say they're the party of personal freedom..."

(Cut to footage of Bush, Delay, Frist, et al.)

"They say they're the party of small government..."

(Cut to more footage of more republicans)

"But they want to insert themselves into your home."

(Show a montage of suburban homes, apartment buildings, etc.)

"They want to insert themselves into your family life."

(Show footage of a couple with a newborn baby.)

"Into your most private moments..."

(Show footage of an elderly woman in a hospital bed, surrounded by her children)

"Your home...your family...everything you've worked for...is THEIR business...

"The Republican Party. Saying one thing and doing another."

Care to expand on that?

This is followed by several comments expressing thanks and appreciation at this "fantastic" idea for an ad. And, they are certainly correct. The GOP has long since lost whatever moorings it might have had as a party dedicated to reducing the size of government and increasing individual freedom. But that isn't the direction of the Democratic Party and especially the direction people like Kos want to go. They want more economic regulation, more services provided by government at the expense of individual choice, and higher taxes on some to pay for it.

Unfuckenbelievable. I visit his blog community as a sampler of what his far end of the spectrum is saying and I come away utterly disgusted each time. The more he squirms into this apparent quasi-libertarian position, the more I want to just slap him.

More from the past: The Democratic Party: The Party of Personal Liberty?, Daily Kos Wants It All, Fiscal Responsibility?, Meteor Blades Needs Economics, The Hypocrisy of Daily Kos, Kos Continues to Amaze, Economic Ignorance, and For the Privatization of Freedom.

UPDATED 5/9/2005 9:35am
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