Big Government Means Small People > Ten ways progressive policies harm society’s moral character

from nationalreview.com

While liberals are certain about the moral superiority of liberal policies, the truth is that those policies actually diminish a society’s moral character. Many individual liberals are fine people, but the policies they advocate tend to make a people worse. Here are ten reasons:

1. The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another..
2. The welfare state, though often well intended, is nevertheless a Ponzi scheme..
3. Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic..
4. The liberal welfare state makes people disdain work..
5. Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing..
6. The bigger the government, the more the corruption..
7. The welfare state corrupts family life..
8. The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults..
9. As a result of the Left’s sympathetic views of pacifism, and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on America to fight the world’s evils and even to defend them..
10. The leftist weltanschauung [world view?] sees society’s and the world’s great battle as between rich and poor rather than between good and evil..

None of this matters to progressives. Against all this destructiveness, they will respond not with arguments to refute these consequences of the liberal welfare state, but by citing the terms “social justice” and “compassion,” and by labeling their opponents “selfish” and worse.

If you want to feel good, liberalism is awesome. If you want to do good, it is largely awful.

[Folks, please read the whole post. The examples used with each of the ten points are concise and very to the point. – JS]

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