Why we should invest in government

I hear a lot of talk from the do-nothing cynics in my former party of choice. They talk about ideologies and complain about "big government". They call for more tax cuts for the wealthy and seem not to care about the way that the rich have exploited their wealth to oppress the poor.

I hear a lot of talk. I don't see real solutions.

Let me tell you something - there is nothing wrong with the ethical use of power. And a democratically elected government has the right to act on behalf of the people who elected them.

This is not "socialism". This is government of, by, and for the people. It's Democracy 101. And at this point, it's the only way to protect our capitalistic system from crumbling.

Government serves a purpose. That purpose is to protect the people and to ensure equal rights and opportunities for all.

I saw a note today from someone that said, "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." (Turns out that was a quote from Napoleon, of all people...) Why is it that we reward people in our American culture for acting without a conscience and without concern for the common welfare of our fellow citizens?

That's why I think we should invest in government. As Hobbes said 400 years ago:

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.