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Originally Posted by turtle
To respond to some of the other points brought up by others, it really boils down to the difference between capitalism and socialism. Most conservatives aren't socialists. The government is not to be trusted because it only wants more and more power. The more it is given the less we are able to self manage. The more it manages the closer to socialism/communism we are.
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Frankly it's about time we realize that capitalism has basically failed. If it worked, government wouldn't constantly have to try and regulate it from destroying otherwise 'self managing' individuals lives. Socialism, at least as practiced now, isn't exactly proving itself to be the solution either, not any current models anyway. If government cannot be trusted, what makes you think individuals who can 'self mange', as you say, are any more trust worthy? All individual people, like government, want is more and more power/money, after all government is simply a group of individuals working for a set of at least somewhat common goals, so what's your point? That's capitalism is it not?
Everyone thinks they know better than everyone else, so what makes anyone any more trust worthy? Yet if we only trust ourselves, which is kind of foolish, we also would be lacking.
In reality the vast majority of humanity is simply not capable of "self managing", I think we've proven time and time again that as a species we are simply are not intelligent enough.
In reality none of us know all the answers, to anything. As one of my teachers rightly pointed out, the more you know, the more you realize how little you actually know!
