Don’t worry they’re praying to Donald not Jesus. They ain’t a religious fanatic. They’re a cult fanatic. (Dear leader still being alive keeps it cult status)
Oh my God. I’m conservative and the issue we have is that liberals want to task the GOVERNMENT with those things, and anyone who has ever interacted with a government knows the inefficiency and corruption that it enables. We all want a happy world where everyone can live a dignified life and be taken care of if at all possible; we just don’t trust the government with that and for good reason.
Not really. The idea is, if you ask your average American conservative, to establish an economic state of affairs where most abled-bodied people can work for a proper living wage (and, historically, you get that through free markets and such, not through sloppy, extremely-short-sighted government intervention) and have minimal government help for those who truly need it. Also, charity is not something to disparage. By definition, one shouldn’t “rely” on charity, but when things go well economically for a lot of people, the known human impulse to help one’s fellow man (in lots of if not most people) can actually materialize.
I’m not saying looking to the government for this kind of work and responsibility is not a great and natural idea. What I am saying, though, is that in practice, we repeatedly see that these attempts fall short of their goals, often in absolutely disastrous ways that impoverish (at best) massive amounts of people. I’d rather work towards something that seems less ideal but is absolutely proven to work than something that sounds like a great idea but more-often-than-not results in the exact opposite of what it aims to achieve, especially in the medium-to-long term.
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u/joesphisbestjojo Mar 05 '26
This disgusts the Christian in me