Oh, and Bruce,
That definition of Democrats and Republicans is pretty far off the mark.

The money that Republicans spend making people go to fight their wars (sometimes when the public has nothing to gain from being at war) is the taxpayers' money -- and it's often spent in ways that enrich the military-industrial complex that includes a lot of those Republicans' stock holdings.    Oh, and a lot of taxpayer money is also spent on police, legislators, courts, prisons, etc., to enforce laws against things that "conservatives" don't want people to have the right to do in their own private lives.

True progressives and liberals want public as well as private money to be spent doing the people's business -- e.g. building and maintaining the country's infrastructure, protecting public and worker safety and caring for the environment, providing education for all, and tending to other important parts of "the commons."    To the extent that Democrats are progressives/liberals they are of like mind.