Bottom Up or Top Down ... You Decide!

I stumbled on this and I think it's a pretty insightful analysis so I offer it to you today. SEE HERE
If you believe in freedom then I think you have to believe that that freedom extends to the individual, which means that in a free society we have to listen to the individual and not dictate to them.

This article asks a bunch of very good questions. It starts out keynoting the incredibly stupid story of the New York 23rd Congressional District which had the GOP putting up a woman far to the left of the Democratic candidate. Apparently what a candidate actually believes makes relatively little difference in New York. Now that a conservative candidate, Doug Hoffman, has eaten the liberal Republican's lunch, she flung her support to the Democratic candidate. Does this smell or what?

But the key question asked is "Where are the Tea Parties of the Left?" The answer that emerges is that the left is a Authority Down organization, dictating to the rank and file. The right is a very large gaggle of conservatives at the grass roots that do all the work and some plutocrats and oligarchs at the top that are much to the left of their grassroots (power and influence are about old money and old money is left money) support structure. The Tea Parties are the result of conservative grass roots getting fed the hell up with being manipulated. I think the GOP might get the message. Apparently Newt Gingrich didn't get it early enough. I used to think Newt was bright, but he must have been in Congress too long.

So the question comes down to whether freedom is about free people or about a few people at the top dictating to the rest. I opt for bottom up. I'm fed up with the top down approach.