It's a shame we don't have more FReepers who feel that way. This forum has become infested with big government socialists who don't give a damn about the U.S. Constitution.
I’m sure that the right wing religious fundamentalists had very good intentions...preventing the moral decay of society and preventing America from following in the footsteps of ancient Rome and sinking into an abyss of decadence and immorality.
The left wing Socialists have good intentions too...feed the poor and hungry (although not fast food, obesity epidemic among the poor in America, you know), prevent disease by encouraging healthy behavior and preventative medicine, help the disadvantaged, provide social justice for minorities even if they didn’t ask for it, save the planet, the polar bears etc, etc...
All good stuff. It’s been tried before. A couple of chaps named Marx and Engels had some brilliant ideas and wrote about it. How did it work out?
Some other guy named Torqemeda tried the religious fundamentalist stuff too. How did that work out?