07-11-2017, 12:03 AM
(07-10-2017, 11:15 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(07-10-2017, 10:48 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: 4. Banks and lending institutions still have a bad name for what they did in the previous decade -- but right-wingers are more likely to excuse them.
A mild addition...
I've noted a red distrust of domestic government action paired with a comparable blue distrust of the private sector. Neither distrust is entirely unjustified. Humans seek power and wealth. If you don't keep eyes open and pressure on, the interests of the people will be swamped by power hunger and greed from one place or another.
I'd as soon stop arguing over which group is messing up things more, and keep a watchful eye in both places.
The main difference is that the government is needed to do the watching, and more especially the preventing, of the power and greed of the private sector. Some businessmen operate with social principles, but others must be required to do what they would do anyway, had they a social conscience. The government, on the other hand, has to be watched to see that it is not captured by greedy private interests, as well as by corrupt officials. The people need to be in charge of their government, if it is to serve their interests.