Things to Regulate

This really sums up the difference between the Republican agenda and that of the Democrats.  They are both all about getting into people's lives.  The GOP is not about small government--that is not the choice that they offer.  All post WW II Republican presidents have expanded government, some of them massively (think Reagan).  There has not been a small government Republican president since Eisenhower.

The choice is that the GOP wants their big government to regulate small things--namely you.  Especially if you are female, an immigrant or have immigrant roots that are not strictly European, or gay.  Who you marry, the choices you make in health care, and especially the options you are offered sexually--those are things the GOP thinks should be regulated.  They do not see regulation of the big things as their provenance.  Things like air, water, and soil.  Those kinds of regulations just slow down the business of rich people making lots of money.

Progressives on the other hand favor keeping out of what choices people make in their personal lives and stick to the choices we have for things like clean energy, affordable health care, and promoting innovation in these areas is their pro-business model.  We know historically that companies can be successful and regulated--those ideals prevent things like the river in Cleveland catching on fire.  We have the opportunity to be a leader in new technologies, but only if we have representatives in government who are looking after the interests of the country as a whole and not just the .01% who pay for the ads that get them elected.