Conservatives are freedom-friendly; Liberals, not so much

A Rasmussen poll says:

59%of U.S. voters agreed with Ronald Reagan that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” ... Only 28% disagree, and 14% are not sure.

Middle class people are with us:

Middle-income voters are more likely to agree with Reagan than those who earn less than $20,000 or more than $100,000.

When looking for help from non-libertarians, we're much more likely to get support from conservatives than liberals, who basically love big government:

Political liberals strongly reject Reagan’s view by a 60% to 28% margin. Forty-seven percent (47%) of moderates agree, while 32% do not. Conservatives are overwhelmingly supportive.

Also interesting:

Although the Republican Party in Washington veered away from Reagan’s approach in the years since the 40th president left office, 83% of Republican voters around the country still agree with him. So do 40% of Democrats and 60% of those not affiliated with either major party.

See the full story for more interesting data. But libertarians should stop being mean to conservatives. They believe in freedom, while liberals do not.

California's Open Primaries Will Reduce Freedom

Doing some reading on primaries, I found the following in an article about the proposed open primary system for California:

The existing primary system, Nehring said, was another Progressive-era reform that shifted the power of nominating candidates from conventions and caucuses to all party members.

Then I saw this on Wikipedia:

In the 1952 presidential election, Kefauver decided to offer himself as a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Campaigning in his coonskin cap, often by dogsled, Kefauver made history when, in an electrifying victory in the New Hampshire primary, he defeated President Harry S. Truman, the sitting President of the United States. Although Kefauver would go on to win twelve of the fifteen primaries that were held that year, losing three to "favorite son" candidates, primaries were not, at that time, the main method of delegate selection for the national convention. Kefauver, therefore, entered the convention a few hundred votes shy of the needed majority. In the 1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Kefauver received 3.1 million votes, while the eventual 1952 Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, received only 78,000 votes.

A political party is a private sector entity. The party membership should be able to nominate their candidate in whatever manner they choose. It looks like that's just another freedom the "progressives" have stolen from me. Now the process is owned by the collective and manipulated by the political class. The proposed open primary system for California will make that worse. Progress!