What if Obama has an activist government that ends up being both successful and popular?

Well, then, he will have won his point in the arena of ideas.

But first, you must consider that he is not looking especially “activist” from a Left point of view.

And at the moment, people still want what they wanted when Republicans took over Congress in 1994.

Now, though, they want it from Democrats.

Results will change their minds, but at the moment, the change Americans want is the change Republicans promised but didn’t deliver.

As for successful, well that depends on your definition of success. Is success some artificially sustained notion of equality of outcomes? The government as provider?

At what point does trading liberty for comfort become no longer successful? When it negatively affects you?

Everyone is a libertarian when their rights are the ones being trampled.

This is not about being popular for me – obviously, I am a conservative in Vermont, for Pete’s sake. It is also not about whether or not liberalism will work out the way you all think it will, though I doubt it will. It is about believing in and fighting for what is right.

America was not founded to ensure that everyone had a cushy life, but to ensure that everyone had freedom from tyranny, even the tyranny of the majority.

Dammit. I was really trying hard to avoid political discussion. Grad school is killing me right now. Can we talk about puppies or something? Food?