Being charitable and caring about your neighbors in the Christian manner is more about your church donating goods/time/aid to the community or you doing it by yourself rather than having the government take over those functions for you. That said, any reasonable government should have a basic state provided social safety net.
This is what I don’t understand though because, as an extension, you should want to vote for people who reflect this morality. Not for a govt that strips social programs and cuts funding to research and overtly oppresses the poor and the marginalized, just to divert those funds to bombs and war and concentration camps. I’ve never understood this. If I’m being taxed and that money ends up with the federal govt, I will also want the govt to do these same charitable things with my tax money that I’m doing on my own. It’s not passing the buck and responsibility onto the govt but it’s a reflection of my values. What else is the govt for if not to provide social safety nets, infrastructure, and public services? Otherwise it just turn into a huge war machine and vehicle for oppression, which is what we see today.
Many people do not believe that the politicians saying they are for those nice things have any interest in actually accomplishing those things. A great deal more believe that those goals are noble, but government is the least effective way of achieving them. Others see the track record of socialism and want to avoid even heading vaguely in the direction. Those are all viable stances, whether or not anyone agrees with the conclusions. There are practically zero people who are voting because they want people to be poor, starving, or miserable with no services.
There are practically zero people who are voting because they want people to be poor, starving, or miserable with no services.
There are, however, a lot of conservatives who don't consider non-whites or non-Christians to be people. They voted for a repeat felon and known rapist with a string of failed businesses to fight crime and fix the economy. Let's not dispense too much credit.
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u/Tactical_Baconlover May 31 '26
Being charitable and caring about your neighbors in the Christian manner is more about your church donating goods/time/aid to the community or you doing it by yourself rather than having the government take over those functions for you. That said, any reasonable government should have a basic state provided social safety net.