Has the church failed that miserably that we now have to look to secular government, which is fundamentally less efficient than individuals looking out for each other, to fix the woes of society? - writer to AS
AS comments:
Socialism and left-liberalism and "compassionate conservative" are really devices with which the state assumes the moral obligations of the individual - and increasingly robs the individual of the resources to be charitable herself. -AS
That's too broad brush to me."Conservatism", with its abject alignment with 'free-market liberalism', produces atomistic forces in society, not 'brotherly' ones. What's more, it teaches by exmaple, most recently, that everything can be 'outsourced'.
The idea that people, left or right, are not looking for government to be a positive moral force is probably without foundation. People want 'good government', and that goes beyond procedural fairness.
