We need the government to save us from ourselves :(

[N-Man]

What? Where the hell do I promote tax cuts for rich people and the other lunacies you're talking about? I think I talked about increasing military spending once, and trust me, if you'd seen what our military's like (choppers crashing into the sea frequently, Vietnam era tanks, etc.) you'd want that too.

New ideas? I've been living in magical welfareland all my life! The only "old ideas" here are those you're promoting! I'm tired of government regulating people's lives, that's it! It's something I refuse to stand for, and something I will not accept, period!

The government is here to ensure the rights of its citizens, those which are written in the constitution of the country, are respected. That is how the constitutional republic or in the case of Canada constitutional monarchy functions. That is its sole mission, and the only mandate which the representatives of the people have received from said people. The delegating of all moral functions to the state simply does not work within the democratic model as far as I am concerned, because a group of people does not have moral authority over another group of people simply because of the fact that they form a majority. That is Imperium in its purest form: the imposition of the will of a certain population group upon another. You who are so anti-imperialist should certainly understand that, ABF. You were just proning those very ideas a few weeks ago.