So, I finally get what Raegen was saying...

[psylum_atla]

In his inaugural  adress, Ronald Ragen made the statement "Government is the answer to your problems, Government is the problem."

Well here's the rub, the American Government is a Government of the people, by the people, and for the people. So in my opinion, Ronald Raegen was saying that the American people were the problem.

This also explains why

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[junglefowl26]

On this my friend, you could not be more wrong. The government is NOT the people. The Corporations the Democrats love to hate on are far more "the people" than the government could ever hope to be

[psylum_atla]

I give Bush credit for that. He assembled a racially diverse administration, and tried to do reach out to hispanics. He put forth several ideas that would have benifited hispanics and other immagrants.

Migrant worker programs, comprehensive immagration reform, and other ideas that that were rightly very good. Bush worked with and has several hispanic family members in Texas. He and McCain both worked on this extensively, only to be hamstringed by other members of the Republican senate's caucus.

McCain even had to say he would vote nay on the immagration bill he worked on during the republican primary. It really ticked off my Republican Government and Econimics teacher from highschool.

[junglefowl26]

My apologies. It has been a stressful week, and I over-reacted.

Still, I feel I must explain: you were trying to connect something I very much hated, racial divisions, with something I very much believed in, small government.

I also feel I must explain that I hate discrimination for the same reason I believe in small government: individualism. I see all the various divisions that humanity is grouped into as arbitrary, and ultimately illusionary. In the end, there are only individuals, who think and feel, love and learn, fail or succeed, based off their unique life stories.
So, the ideology of individualism has little room for race, and no love for collectives, like the government, that try to control the lives of individuals under the belief that we all have thee same wants and needs, and anything that encourages conformity at all really.