Personal Responsibility and Political Choice

Latino men are said to be gravitating toward the Republican Party because they believe in personal responsibility. Evidently, they believe that liberal Democrats don’t share this belief. If so, they are dead wrong. I choose to be a liberal Democrat. I choose emphatically not to be a conservative Republican. I emphatically embrace a personal philosophy that is centered on individual personal responsibility: striving to reach our full potential by developing and using all the resources entrusted to our care. Using our God-given talents, our own minds, our own judgment, our own willpower, self-motivation, and self-discipline, to achieve the goals that we set for ourselves.

This isn’t an aside. This is the heart and soul of liberal democracy that cannot survive unless its citizens practice personal responsibility unless they do their part to keep it alive through their active participation. Liberal Democrats are the heart and soul of liberal democracy that affords us the freedom to do our part. Take away liberal Democrats and see what happens to democracy. They believe with all their heart that personal responsibility, empowered by free will, by freedom of choice, is the driving force behind our democracy and they fight every day to preserve it.

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