doc111
Well-Known Member
I can't figure this one out either UTI. We won't always have the leaders we have today. By giving the govt. more and more power we are setting the stage for a nefarious character like Hitler or Staling to walk in and take control. The inability of the left to understand this is baffling to me. Every action causes unintended consequences. Some of these are not so alarming but some are.this is something that is conveniently left out of every argument for increased regulation, the expansion of government's responsibilities and the mob rule of true democracy. we want to be protected. we want poverty erased. we want the guilty punished and their victims' suffering eased. we want so many things and consider the strength of the state to be the best way to go about getting them. we forget that we are all guilty of something in someone else's eyes and that each bit of power we relinquish to others can be turned against us. how many times have we heard that the innocent have no need to fear the law or that it is the wealthy that should bear the lion's share of the cost of running the country? we forget that we all do things that someone else disagrees with and that they may very well decide should be illegal. we forget that there will always be someone with less than us and that they may decide to confiscate what little we have - for "the good of society".
government is the only entity that we consider trustworthy enough to use force to attain its ends, but we all admit it is flawed and corrupt. government is the only entity with the capacity to quell any insurrection through the use of violence, but we allow it to continue to "build the case" for the use of that violence. government is the only entity that can determine for itself how much of what you have can be confiscated and used for its own purposes, but we continue to demand that it be allowed an ever growing piece of the financial pie.
Abe, your comment about fox news is getting pretty tired as well. Not necessarily saying you use that all the time but the lefties on here like to use it. I don't watch fox news. The same could be said about your source for the article: npr is about the most liberal news outlet around.