Was busy outlining a post on this matter when DrewM at Ace pretty much summed it up in a sentence: “It’s funny how the answer to every problem is always more and strong government.”
For every problem it seems, particularly social ones, liberals believe the government should step in and impose a solution. But, as with many (but definitely not all) crises, government is not the solution, but very often is the problem.
In those cases where government is not the cause of the problem, the government solution often exaggerates it.
More on this anon, as necessary, with a possibly related post on why conservative policies are better for gay people (a notion I begin to explore here with Cynthia Yockey doing the same here.)
Why? Easy. You use your mind to think things through rather than being motivated by rage, hatred, envy, fear etc. Without those things, liberals can’t control people.
l dont care why…Im just glad a narrow minded self loathing hypocrite doesnt call themselves a liberal
TGC, I guess it depends on perspective. That’s sometimes how I view conservatives.
Let’s see, you drive on government roads, water is pumped into your office by government, you can get medicine that’s been vigorously tested by the government, you can be reasonably sure that the food you’re eating isn’t contaminated because of the government, you can use this great thing called the internet which was built and is maintained by the government, you can communicate with your friends and family all over the country with cell phones that depend on radio waves that the government regulates, people come and help you if your house is on fire, if someone breaks into your house, or if you’re having a medical emergency because of the government, the government maintains a standing army to defend your home so you don’t have to, the government funds scientific, technological, and medical research that directly benefits your life in countless ways, you (most likely) relied on government-funded schooling for your education…………………….
Oh yes, the government ruins everything.
Oh yes, the government ruins everything.
Comment by Levi — June 28, 2011 @ 8:34 am – June 28, 2011
Who said everything? Kindly post evidence of where anyone claimed that.
A government is: a territorial monopoly on the use of physical force. Its only legitimate purpose is if it serves the People by removing physical force as an issue from their daily lives, so that the People will enjoy effective rights to life, liberty and property and deal with each other only by voluntary consent.
Levi hatesHardcore lefties hate that, because if people only have to deal withhimthem voluntarily, thenhe losesthey lose. Hardcore lefties are the people who have a need to force others to do what they want. The need may economic – as in, it’s the only way they can get a living – or it may be moral-psychological – as in, a hidden lust to revenge themselves on others by wielding power over them.But once you understand that their basic motive is the need/lust for power, then their behavior is explicable: their reliance on governmental compulsion in every problem area, their inconsistency (and sometimes, total lack) of principle in the arguments they advance for government interference, their constantly projecting their own bad traits onto others, and so forth.
As an entity which collects its revenue by force and indeed which embodies force, government ought to interfere with the activities of the citizenry as little as possible, doing nothing beyond the impartial protection of individual rights. A citizen who can get the government to alter outcomes on his behalf (other than the enforcement of universal rights to life, liberty and property) is a kind of tyrant.
Well… I guess I’ll have to finish my blog-post with the same title I started two months ago. Will have it done this afternoon.
godo to know Levi applauds the Patriot Act, the Trail of tears, the Tuskegee experiments, Jim Crow Laws, and all the other ‘great’ things brought to us by government.
Now hush Levi, adults are talking.
Levi, once again, illustrates the idiocy of liberal ideology perfectly. He thinks that since there are some things the Government does, the Government should, ipso facto, be empowered to do everything and spare him the inconvenience of having to do anything for himself.
That ideology, that idiocy, is what drives me away from liberalism.
Um, Liberal “Patriot”, who are you calling self-hating and why?
Please provide the examples which justify your use of this mean-spirited slur. Thanks!
Dan, perhaps it’s time to start enforcing the rules here.
Glad to see that Levi supports bedrock conservative ideals such as these:
government roads
government obtained, purified and distributed water
medicine vigorously tested and regulated by the government
food regulated by government for purity and safety
government regulated monopolies for power, communication, internet
fire and police protection
national defense
public education
research directly supporting the above.
Levi fails to mention his bedrock liberal ideals such as these:
minimum wage (meaning “living” wage)
subsidized housing
food stamps
Obamacare
retirement security
government jobs
endless free education
free rides
wealth redistribution
compensation far every cockamamie victimhood imaginable
In his “mind,” the simple fact that you don’t buy into his ideology justifies the slur.
Another reason not to be a liberal: You don’t want to be identified with these pasty-white dorks: http://www.mrctv.org/video/103140
Is it just me, or did it smell kinda like Paula Brooks back there? (Speaking of people who hate themselves, needing to lie about their gender and sexuality – and, speaking of people who project their bad traits and mental problems onto others.)
I think “Paula Brooks” will be the featured speaker at the Middle-Aged White Guys Who Pretend to Lesbians Convention. It’s the only convention of its kind held entirely in an AOL Chat Room.
#2 – Funny, this person seems to encapsulate the phrase “a narrow minded self loathing hypocrite.”
Thank God they’re liberal. I’d hate to be that person.
Regards,
Peter H.
Liberals at one time used to claim they were the tolerant ones. Now, they spend all their time explaining why it’s OK to be intolerant of people who disagree with them.
I want to address a few of Levi’s points:
“Let’s see, you drive on government roads”
–These could be run by private sector more cheaper and more efficiently.
“water is pumped into your office by government”
–I would say that this is a proper task for government. Some may disagree.
“You can get medicine that’s been vigorously tested by the government, you can be reasonably sure that the food you’re eating isn’t contaminated because of the government”
–Our food and medicine is no more safe just because the government tests it.
“People come and help you if your house is on fire, if someone breaks into your house, or if you’re having a medical emergency because of the government”
–These could all be supplied cheaper and more efficiently by private contractors.
“the government maintains a standing army to defend your home so you don’t have to”
–Well, that is what it is supposed to do.
Levi effectively missed the point of the post. I never said government had no role. I merely faulted the liberal tendency to seek a government solution to every problem.
Seems some people would rather attack than consider our points. It’s fine for him to disagree, but if you’re going to spend so much at our blog, wouldn’t you want at least to take the time to address our ideas?
Except that it wasn’t and it isn’t, but it is a liberal wet dream. The private sector made the internet as we know it and made it free for all. The government wants to take it over and tax the shit out of it.
They also keep the prices of medicine high and keep a lot of medicines, that people could use, out of the country. The government also keeps the health care prices high be refusing to pay for it, forcing the costs to be spread out over everybody else and then has the audacity to attack and shake down insurance companies for their own failures.
Really, Levi?
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/28/fda-panel-is-deciding-life-or-death-for-my-wife/#ixzz1Qbu5KNnr
Progressives like Levi can’t argue with actual conservative positions, so they make up straw men. A progressive, particularly one with only Levi’s limited faculties, cannot dispute the conservative proposition that Government should be limited to a small range of tasks that cannot be effectively performed by other parts of society. That’s way too hard. But he can claim that conservatives want to eliminate all Government services and argue against that position – which no one on the conservative right advocates – precisely because it is absurd.
See this is the beauty of “small government” they can constantly tear down the government and say that it must be smaller, and that government is always the problem. But when faced with all the good that government does they say they weren’t referring to THAT part government.
But he can claim that conservatives want to eliminate all Government services and argue against that position – which no one on the conservative right advocates – precisely because it is absurd.
And as we see in the Obama Party’s desperate attack ads, that’s pretty much all they have left.
The hilarity is that Obama is shrieking that Republicans want to “end government as we know it” — while people are watching as blunder after blunder after blunder of the all-government, all-the-time Obama Party piles up.
Which explains why this tactic is boomeranging on them so badly. Republicans are advocating for change, while Obama is pushing the failed policies of the past.
You mean the “good” like spending $2.6 million on training Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly or the billions in Medicare/Medicaid fraud that liberals don’t give a rat’s ass about? Imagine all the real good that could be done with that money.
– The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, Munich, February 1920
And Timmeh steps in to prove my point.
See this is the beauty of “small government” they can constantly tear down the government and say that it must be smaller, and that government is always the problem. But when faced with all the good that government does they say they weren’t referring to THAT part government.
And here’s a fine example of what Timmeh thinks is “all the good the government does”.
Liberals like Timmeh are just hostage-takers. They scream and whine and cry and try to use things like national defense to justify their using taxpayer dollars to surf pron sites.
I say we make them choke on it. Timmeh and Levi support and endorse using taxpayer dollars and equipment to pay fat salaries to government workers who download child pronography all day. They and their Obama Party consider this a legitimate and constitutional government function.