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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
. It is the government's place to secure equal rights for all.
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Oh-oh. Can of worms there.
While it may or may not be
desirable what you(somebody) say (depending on where you(somebody) come from), the duty of a governemnt is far less romantic and much more pragmatic. In a nutshell the duty of a government is to execute on behalf of the policies a state is aiming to realise in legislation and executive. These can be prioritizing your goal of "equal rights for all", or can instead prioritize for example common good before individual good - or can prioritize some very other general direction.
By example practiced in reality, most modern western states, including America and Germany, are of the second category, prioritizing national interest, communal interest, by securing longterm survivability of the community and civilisation. And often it is the jurisdiction, the courts, that are used to tip the balance more in favour of the first category of prioritizing equal rights for everybody that you desired.
I also have a far less romantic view of what governments in Wetsenr states are. Governments simply are
political parties that are in power. That they won power in elections, or a coup, does not make them any less a political party, with all disadvanatges that brings: block-thinking, corruption, lobbyism, ideological missionising, etc. None of the many miseravble problems we expoerience from the hands of poltical parties seizes to exist just because this party claims government office for the next couple of years.
This is not meant as hair-splitting. I indeed think it is of utmost importance that people become clear about what means what in our current systems. Else people cannot make it transparent, cannot become aware of the consequences and why they are like they are (and not different), cannot make educated judgements, and cannot emancipate themselves from the system of the status quo. And I see it as indispensable that people start to show this system the middlefinger. The failed wars we have had and the missionary attitude that where behind them, this megalomaniac idealism I mean, the financialand economical crisis, and the destruction of Europe by the EU due to the criminal example this Soviet-style organisation has set, should make it clear to the open mind that the political mechnaism we took for granted to function properly, have failed. If we do not realise that and correct what is to be repaired and replace what is FUBAR, our passivity and lacking determination will only realise right those threads and destruction that we want to avoid, like a self-fulfilling prophecy.