[Democrat_media]

I never get it why liberals/democrats trust government bureaucrats and politicians so much , with their lives , to take care of them etc. ridiculous. government idiots are the most evil idiots in the first place and and even if there were a government agent that was intelligent and a saint and it couldn't run things that only the free market running millions of transactions in real time can: it takes with gov red tape a long time for government to do anything even if they were even accountable or could do a right thing once in a while : examples: FEMA, government schools, government public housing, Cuba, USSR, Cambodia etc.

[Monty22002]

I’m very mildly religious, I just don’t have the gene or brain wiring or whatever to be entralled by things. However, I know most people do and if they don’t have religion they will need something else to believe in to fill the void. They’ll go to idealogy and become true believers.

[elkfersupper]

I never get it why liberals/democrats trust government bureaucrats and politicians so much

It's a religion with these people. It's why they never quit and persevere in the face of obvious fallacies and even what would normally be devasting defeats. They are mentally ill and have a long-term view of what the world should look like.

They will pursue it until the last one of them is dead.

[robowombat]

This is one of the most interesting questions in public life. I spent my working life either in the military or working for it. A fair number of the AF and Army civilian employees really believed ‘government has the answers’ in spite of the day to day reality of what n administrative regime actually is like. Other persons i went to college with or knew through alumni associations believe the same. I came to the conclusion these are people who believe as did Woodrow Wilson that the industrial and post industrial state would become a Hobbesian hell for the average man through monied interests manipulation of politics and the economy unless government was there to minimally provide basic economic benefits to the masses and to control the predatory behavior of the classes. People don’t talk in these terms but their comments do infer that. The belief is ‘nobody can save enough, be clever enough in predicting market behaviors, or be have enough foresight to see concrete trends that will impact average people. If government does not protect them they will be destitute or considering how many people live off of Social Security be more destitute than they are. That is why ‘a union job’, a’government job’ or a job with a hospital or a school system are seen as so desirable. These folks believe no matter what they do they can’t compete effectively as the deck is stacked against ‘the average man’ from the start and they have to be protected from greedy and evil rich and powerful persons and corporations.