Up is down, left is right...

I'm getting tired of hearing the socialist Democrats complain that "the far right" wants to limit civil rights, and how only Democrats are truly interested and capable of preserving individual rights as enumerated in the Constitution.

Of course, the leftists are interested in preserving all sorts of invented rights which appear nowhere in our Constitution, such as the rights to public school, housing, medical care, infanticide, affirmative action, etc...

But the bottom line is that only those who seek to restrain the size and scope of government actually advocate real protection of individual rights because it is government that tramples on the rights of the individual. As such, it stands to reason that the bigger the government, the more power it has to constrain the rights of the individual seeking to be free from unnecessary governmental regulation.

In the end, people like myself who advance the ideas of federalism are the only ones who honestly believe in the sovereignty of the individual, and the unalienable right he enjoys to his life and property.

Authoritarians who use government force to redistribute wealth have no respect for the right of property once enjoyed by Americans. Is that not precisely the bedrock foundation upon which today's Democrat party is built, namely the use of government force to reallocate property from one individual to another, while taking a healthy cut for themselves along the way?