If we go back in our countries history to the beginning, just after the ink on the US Constitution was dry, the role of the federal government was not to be a caretaker of it’s people. In fact, the opposite was true: the government only existed and was sustainable based upon the care of the people (“We the people…”)

The altruistic role of the local community is subverted by the liberal agenda to define the role of centralized government as that of a caretaker of the masses. Ultimately, in the role of the caretaker of the people, the federal government steals the opportunity for individuals in a local community to congregate and cooperate among themselves to solve social problems. This federal government welfare agenda eliminates the binding of the community toward a cause of social welfare that is tailored to the needs of a particular community. The centralized welfare programs must assume that all people in need in every community have similar needs and that they are all worthy of assistance regardless of their personal choices or behavior. Local programs at the grass roots level allow for discrimination so that people are free to give their time and resources to others that they feel are deserving. This key element of local grass roots giving allows for the local communities to avoid enabling bad behavior. A community (and certainly the federal government) cannot sustain a program of care for a growing population of unproductive dependents who take more than they contribute to the collective. The result is, for productive people, to have their property taken at threat of guns and imprisonment, and to have that property given to some (and a growing number) of people in their communities who demonstrate selfish, unproductive, and community damaging behavior. This removes the chance of the citizens to care for those fellow citizens in need who are honorable and responsible to the community. In other words, our allowance of the liberal agenda to define the federal government as a caretaker of it’s people has depersonalized our society and has limited the ability of people to voluntarily take care of it’s people.

The weapon of the liberal agenda is to demonize any who would not support the re-allocation of resources from local communities to allow the central government the power to address the apparent ills of society. The administrative cost of sending hard earned resources (not to mention that they are resources taken from private citizens) to Washington to be re-distributed back into the local community is high. What the liberal leaders have done is hijacked the purpose and role of local grass roots cohesive community involvement in favor of the impersonal and disconnected centralized social welfare function. The consequence is limitation of the cohesive quality of community cooperation and the elimination of positive local discriminatory practices.

While I am sure there are those who could write a paper on the current state of organized Judeo-Christian religion and it’s failure, in most every denomination, to maintain and grow participation, one of the major external causes of this trend is the growing role of the federal government as the caretaker and social net for people in local communities. There are other groups in communities besides those that meet in churches and synagogues, that are also finding it difficult to recruit young people. Membership in local grass-roots community organizations aimed at addressing local social issues is diminished as more and more feel they do their part by paying their taxes and expect the central government to take care of these issues.

So we move toward a new paradigm where it is no longer the expectation that mature and citizens will take care of themselves. Instead we find that more and more want to look away from self responsibility and the discriminating requirements of neighbors and to look to a central figure who draws it’s power from the vote of the growing mass of immature and dependent citizens. The central figure draws support with the promise that he will coerce others into caring for any who chose something less than self responsibility. These individuals surrender their proxy, dignity and self respect to a captor disguised as a savior.

The economically viable citizen in the America of the modern liberal must, on the penalty of imprisonment, work several months of every year to care for persons he has never met and many of whom escape the moral responsibility of working for themselves and providing for their own material welfare (even though they are not occupationally disabled.) The foundations of social cooperation in communities across America are not understood by the modern liberal. The capacity for individual altruism by discrimination and choice manifested as charitable acts in a community are the foundation of sustainable systems of social cooperation. When this selective moral imperative of group survival is changed to be the product of a legally enforceable demand by the central government in exchange for votes and continued power, the foundation for the community social net is weakened and we are set on a destructive path.