guest post: on limited government
April 17th, 2009 -- Posted in guest post, politics | 3 Comments »(i’ve been thinking a lot about what limited government means to me, and i thought it would be interesting to get a bit of a different perspective, so i asked one of my favorite conservative friends/bloggers, curtis schweitzer, to contribute his thoughts on the subject. i think from his post you’ll find it easy to see why he’s one of the most thoughtful, well-reasoned republicans i know :-).
The concept of limited or government is a popular one these days, which is something that might seem odd considering the balance of power in Washington. And yet, when we look at the over-arching viewpoints of the two major U.S. political parties, it starts to make more sense. After all, the traditionally more populist Democratic Party has recently made the influence of wealthy lobbyists one of the keystones of their campaigns, and while the expansion of the government in certain arenas might be a necessary byproduct of their political and philosophical outlook, the politicians in the Democratic Party– in particular Barack Obama– realize that “small government” is very complimentary to their agenda, and thus have (rather brilliantly) embraced those aspects of it which allow them to champion it without seeming self-contradictory.