Question of Political Ideology

[lavender]

 

[WriterDom]

Liberals love the word Government. Give them more Government and they'd give up orgasms. Bigger Government, world wide Government, our God the Government we trust. Till death taxed we part.

 

[Purple Haze]

What the hell is decentralization?

America has a pretty good government.....if you compare.....

Want no government?

Move to Montana.

Or Texas.

 

[lavender]

 

[Thumper]

Anarchy...

Let's try that since government is sooo distasteful

Please enlighten me on all the evils that government does to me? What do I need to be afraid of? (I can hear the answer now "If you don't know then you are stupider than I thought")

The world is fundamentally different today than it was 225 years ago. The US was a nation of farmers and craftsmen. There wasn't a whole lot of interaction back then. Now it is possible for one person or a small group to wreak untold havoc in innumerable ways ina very short amount of time.

The layers of our society have become so interdependent that a breakdown in one can affect millions of lives. We are the government. Why is that so hard to fathom? Just because I don't hold office doesn't mean I can't be heard or do anything. Society is much more complex now. To pretend it isn't is folly.

 

[shadowsource]

Then who's killing all those Texans?

Want no government? Move to Montana. Or Texas.

If there's no government in Texas, who's killing all those minority convicts who are frequently under 18, or mentally defective, or whose defense attorneys were sleeping?

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[SoftPeaches]

The triumph of the American government (regardless of all the issues people take with politics of the day, you'll have that) is that we have a strong centralized government and definate power for the states. The question of "state's rights" and "stronger federal government" goes all the way back to the creation of the Constitution, and the first political parties (Federalist, who were technically liberal at the time, but wanted the centralized government, and Jeffersonian Demacratic Republicans, who were liberal, and preferred the idea of states rights). The balance that is continually struck shows how great our government can be....and the genius of the men that created it.

 

[Markov Cain]

I prefer 50 sets of solutions in order to find the best solution as opposed to being subjected to one enlightened solution. But my friends in China vehemently disagree. They don't like too many idiots in the conversation, just those whom have been proven able to make it to the top.