Say Anything Blog

One thing liberals and conservatives have in common is a distrust for government.  Oh, it’s not a common distrust; liberals don’t trust government to conservatives while conservatives don’t trust anything more than national security to any government, liberal or conservative.

The question arises though; why would liberals want to invest government with any more power than it already has given the fact that conservatives will inevitably control one or more branches of government at various times in the future?  In other words if it is conservatives liberals fear, why afford future conservative administrations or legislatures more power and more money?

Both liberals and conservatives correctly acknowledge the threat of government to its citizens, but for some reason liberals think that their leaders are immune or somehow inoculated from the greed and ambition which plagues most government officials. Like any disease the risk of infection increases when its presence increases.  Increasing the power and money government holds and controls only increases the likelihood of corruption.  If history is any indicator, corruption is more than likely, it’s inevitable.

Given the reality that power and money corrupts, why would anyone think that the highest authority of the land would be better trusted with more of it?
And, why wouldn’t that power and money be better trusted to us, the citizens? 

As free citizens, free market forces operate to limit such a centralization of money and power, and citizens must answer to the authority for any illegal use of power and money.  Government operates free from these corrective influences.  So tell me please, why is government the solution to any of the social problems we face?