Liberalism Or Conversativism: The Future

I want to clarify something that may not have been clear from my original post. I do not wish to establish my religion, nor do I want it to have any privileged status in government. I simply want to take the important principles from the Bible because they are moral, and they work. Secularists or those of other religions will not be left out in the cold since everyone will benefit from conservative principles. "Simply put, life in biblical times were very different to how life is now." I agree with you that we should not in fact model our societies off of the societies in the Bible. Instead, we should model our societies based on the principles in the Bible. Principles such as freedom, liberty, and equality will not change based on time. "whereas I pointed out too much liberty leads to destruction" In context, you are talking about the destruction of the environment. I have several points on this topic. 1) Liberty is more important than the environment. This is obviously a presupposition. If you have different values, there is little I could do to change your mind. 2) Liberty and the environment can both be protected. A bad environment inevitably hurts the people who live in it. Therefore, the government does have a legitimate warrant to step in and prevent needless pollution such as dumping sludge into rivers. 3) The free market is the best way to protect the environment. It is highly debatable whether CSR programs are actually effective, but the free market will find the solution. Why? I am studying engineering, and I know first hand that efficiency is extremely important to businesses. They will spend millions of dollars just to increase their efficiency by less than a percent. They do this because better efficiency means less cost, but it also has the positive side effect of helping the environment. Therefore, a free market will be the biggest innovator in clean technology. 4) Conservatives want to protect the environment. The same Bible that fuels conservatism also tells us to be good stewards of the earth. We are commanded not to destroy it. When this is applied to society, we are on board with protecting the environment. 5) As you mention, China, a country that is extremely leftist, is destroying the environment. This is because, when leaders gain too much power, concern for the environment falls away just as concern for human rights. Countries that are socialist or communist tend to hurt the environment more than capitalist countries. If we want to save the environment, we should move right, not left. "Social class gap" I do realize the factors that make it more difficult for people to succeed, but conservatism is the only view that actually has solutions to the problems you mentioned. - A free market is the best way to make people wealthier and more able to succeed as will be argued below. Also, history has shown over and over again that when the government steps in to help people, individuals do less to help their neighbors. When governments step back, individuals will naturally step in and help those who are truly in need: https://www.forbes.com... - Racial/ Sexual discrimination is best solved by the free market. Capitalism is colorblind. Capitalists would be stupid to hire a less skilled white person over a black person or to not sell to a black person. Racism means they lose money. While some fringe business owners might do so, they would be swept under a tide of colorblind businessmen who only see the color green. - As mentioned, people with mental/physical health issues would be best cared for without a welfare state. - High crime/drug areas are best cured by a wealthier society. Such a society is best created by conservatism as will be shown below. - Lastly, even if you have all of the above disadvantages, you can still succeed in a conservative society. That's the beauty of conservatism; it doesn't matter what disadvantages you may have had, you can still succeed. If you grow up poor in America, you only need to do three things, and you will be nearly guaranteed success. 1) Graduate high school. 2) Get a job. 3) Wait until you are married to have children. If you do these things, you will not be permanently poor in America: https://www.brookings.edu... Progress: Progress naturally assumes going to a superior state over time. Of course, this assumes there is such a superior. When leftists speak of progress, they often convolute different types of progress. Different types of progress are moral, governmental, technological, and societal. 1) Moral Progress: This assumes that there is some perfect standard of morality to which we are getting closer and closer. If our morality is truly progressing, we must have some standard of morality. Such a standard can only be found on a Biblical (or at least theistic) worldview, thus conservatism is the best method for moral progress. 2) Governmental Progress: Governmental progress also assumes a perfect government that we are attempting to reach. Conservatives believe we are getting further and further away from this ideal government as it gets larger. Think about it. Since America's government has increased, the school systems are collapsing, we are going into debt, inflation is taking over, regulation is restricting freedom, spending is out of control, and people are less and less satisfied with the state of Washington. In order to truly progress, we must move back in time to a limited, controlled government. 3) Technological Progress: Conservatism is the best system for innovation. Under this system, people and businesses are driven by money and competition to constantly innovate and create new products that we like to use. Nearly all of the revolutionary technologies that we love came because of capitalism: smartphones, computers, lights, electricity, air conditioning, refrigerators, cars, trains, and even literature. This is why in terms of culture, America has a huge impact on the world stage. Even clean energy and renewable resources are technologies that will be innovated by Capitalists. 4) Societal Progress. By this, I mean an increase in well-being. Capitalism is the best system for this type of progress because it is the best system for technological progress. Our lives are better today, not because of the government, but because of the amazing technology we have. We live longer because of better medical treatments, and we are more prosperous since we have the amazing technologies that we use every day. In fact, the only problems capitalist countries have are as a result of overabundance and success, not lack of it. An example of this is the obesity epidemic. This is why Capitalist countries today are much wealthier: http://www.aei.org... Leftist countries always fail: I would like to end my response by examining history to choose the correct view. Germany: After WWI, communists contributed to running Germany into the ground. Out of their desperation, they made the leftist (although not a liberal) Adolf Hitler to power. After he took power, millions were killed until he was finally defeated. Germany was not alone since nearly all of the Axis powers during WWII were leftist. Soviet Union: The Soviet Union had been under communist control for decades, and Russia still is. Countless dictators including Joseph Stalin have murdered millions of individuals under this system until its eventual collapse. Due to space, I will not go into more detail. Other failed leftist nations include Venezuela, Cuba, Japan, Italy, Chile, Estonia, China, Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan, North Korea, etc.... https://history.state.gov... http://isj.org.uk... We should be running from leftism.