A Difference That Makes no Difference

Once again L. Neil Smith tackles explaining how the Democratic and Republican Parties are no different under the skin. I've met quite a few people who have little problem understanding that the Democratic Party has long been co-opted by the ethics of socialism. However, that same person may think the Republican Party is somehow the enemy of socialism merely because it is the enemy of the Democrats. Like the biblical parable, he can see the splinter in the eye of his enemy but miss the beam in his own. After all the academic hair-splitting is done, the Democratic and Republican parties are nothing more than the left and right wings of the Socialist Vulture Party.

Conservatives—Republicans—are socialists.

True, they may desire to hold you down atop the stone altar and cut your still-beating heart out with an obsidian knife for a set of entirely different reasons—national security, Judaeo-Christian traditions, "common" decency—than the liberals or "progressives" or Democrats do, but to you, the important part is cutting your heart out with an obsidian knife, not whatever excuse they may offer for doing it.

Read the rest at To Reduce Them Under Absolute Despotism.

A difference that makes no difference is no difference.