No, you don't fear it. And that's why you're a detriment to the future of this country. You don't see the fundamental difference between the "governments" of the dark ages that were nothing but unbridled private power, and a government that is actually beholden to its people.
Much of the government you cherish you have no say in whatsoever. In most cases, your fate is in the hands of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats whom you just assume have your interests in mind. They do not.
Not true at all. There is a tremendous difference between political power and economic power. You seem to have an irrational fear of people with more economic power than you but are unbelievably naïve when it comes to your willingness to surrender political powers to an unaccountable bureaucracy
Why do you want it in the hands in unaccountable, unelected people whose motivation is purely self-interest instead of people who are accountable to the populace of the nation?
What are you talking about? Who the hell in the government is ever held accountable for anything?
I don't get the pathological hero worship of aristocrats. It makes no sense to me and is completely antithetical to the principles of this country.
Sorry, do have some evidence that such "hero worship" exists? Or have you just run out of argument? And what are "the principles of this country" to which you refer?
Is it the delusion that you'll be one someday? Do you actually think that people who are born into wealthy families are better than you? Do you just really hate people who are poorer than you?
Where do you get this stuff? These questions are nothing but straw men. Why is it so difficult for you just to stick to what is being said rather than resort to such nonsense?
I literally don't know how to answer you because your mindset is so alien to me that it's making my head spin.
It is your
caricature of my mindset that is alien to you. But it cant be that alien since it was you who invented it.
Let's talk about education, for example. Shouldn't everyone be educated? Shouldn't everyone have a great education? Isn't that more important than education being profitable to people owning schools? Isn't an educated populace one that will make this country greater? Either the priority is profit (which our system of private enterprise necessitates that it would be), or the priority is to educate everyone. You only get one top priority.
There is no reason education cannot be accomplished via the profit motive. But if you want to argue that poor neighborhoods would get substandard education under such a system, perhaps you might look around at the current standard of education your altruistic method is offering the poor.
If the system is accountable to the people, then their priority is enacted. The people's priority is an educated and prosperous nation. If the system is unaccountable, then the priority of the few powerful people is enacted. Which one do you want to happen?
If public education is your example of an accountable, effective system then you really have no leg to stand on. But if you really feel your voice can hack its way through the layers of educational bureaucracy, your are crazy.
But I think you have answered my initial question and that answer seem to be an unequivocal 'yes.' So thanks for that. Like I said, I hadn't really considered the thought behind the liberal love of government, but at least it is now somewhat more understandable to me. Irrational, but understandable.
