Medved: The Liberal God Delusion

Michael Medved

• conservatives want to address the threat of gun violence by giving individuals more power while liberals seek to improve the situation by concentrating more power in the hands of the government
• liberals place a touching and naive faith in the ideal of a higher power—potential world government—while conservatives insist that the United States, like any nation, must ultimately rely only on itself.
• Regarding the great tax-and-spend battles...Republicans trust the private decisions of prosperous people to make the best use of the money that those citizens have generated; Democrats rely on the superior wisdom and broader perspective of a larger, more activist government to distribute rewards
• In selecting strategies for helping the poor and uplifting the downtrodden, the opposed approaches of left and right offer an especially sharp contrast...conservatives at every income level provide disproportionate support for private charities...Liberals, on the other hand, consider such private efforts insufficient and demand governmental initiatives
• At the moment, big-government fundamentalism poses more of a threat to the republic than religious absolutism.  

Yeah.  Lord save us from our saviors.  The savior business is very lucrative, you know