I think the standard rhetoric is that the Dems limit positive freedoms, where
the Reps limit negative freedoms.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/ Though I have
lots of problems with this (always false) dichotomy.
There are exceptions, of course. Anti-abortion Reps want to limit your ability
to get an abortion (a positive liberty), whereas Dems tend to want to limit
your cloistering away from people different from you (a negative liberty) [⛧].
But it's a good enough dichotomy for most things. I tend to think of the Dems
as constraint-based solvers (inverse map) and Reps as positivists (forward
map). Personally, I try to be pluralist and agnostic and choose solvers that
seem to have a history of working.
[⛧] I'd be happy to live somewhere without any sushi, for example. Those damned
Democrats keep trying to force me to eat sushi. 8^D I have the right to live in
a sushi-free zone. Don't bring your damned sushi to go plate into the local tap
room or I'll be forced to shoot you in the face with my 9mm loaded with 15
hollow points that I trained for a WHOLE HOUR so I can carry it in my pocket.
On 8/22/20 5:26 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
What freedoms are Democrats trying to take away? The freedom to dump mine
tailings in creeks? That's the one that I can think of.
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