Democrats

I see an innumerable crowd of like and equal men who revolve on

themselves without repose, procuring the small and vulgar pleasures

with which they fill their souls.

Over these is elevated an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole

charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.

It is absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and

gentle. It would resemble the paternal power if, like that power,

it had as its object to prepare men for manhood, but it seeks, to

the contrary, to keep them irrevocably fixed in childhood....it

provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs,

guides them in their principal affairs....

    The sovereign extends its arms about the society as a

whole; it covers its surface with a network of petty regulations--

complicated, minute, and uniform--through which even the most

original minds and the most vigorous souls know not how to make

their way...it does not break wills; it softens them, bends them,

and directs them; rarely does it force one to act, but it

constantly opposes itself to one's acting on one's own...it does

not tyrannize, it gets in the way; it curtails, it enervates, it

extinguishes, it stupefies, and finally reduces each nation to

being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals, of

which the government is the shepherd.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Thought:

The bread basket of the US should be the GOP's bastion of strength but alas it is faced with politicians who have succumbed to the democrats idea of power via crippling the people with entitlements so that they become enslaved to the politicians who have heroinized there lives with handouts and sucked their coffers dry with ever more burdensome taxes to be spent on their whims, cronies, and make believe projects.