A few political pot-shots.

When the movie "V for Vendetta" came out, there was some hullabaloo about it having some anti-then-current-American-administration messages in it. I found that amusing, not because I was pro- or anti- that administration, but because I viewed the general tone of the movie, and the story it was based on, as anti-authoritarian and anti-totalitarian not anti-specific-ideology. Further as the now current administration has gone on, I find that the anti- message is better applied to the current one. So I saw more or less the following.

I am not equipped to peruse the video library of the speeches by the current president, but would find it amusing to see someone cull the above quote from the current President's speeches.

As well, I recently listened to the audio-book of "A Patriots History of the United States." Listening to what this had to say about the origins of the modern Democratic Party around 1840, and then how FDR took it from there in the 1930's an image similar to the following below began to coalesce:

At first I was going to do a political party division on who saw what, but seeing how both parties are more interested in power than freedom, at least according to the rhetoric I am hearing, I changed the divisioning captions. As someone who views himself as right of ideological center, and accepts the label of 'conservative', I perceive that the divisions between the parties right now are less of power and freedom, and more about how the coercive power of the govenrment is going to be used.

I am somewhat resigned to working within the system to change it, but the real issues that I would like to support would revolve around decreasing the coercive power of the government back to its Constitutional levels, Federal, State and local, and increasing the freedoms of the citizens.