POLL: As an Atheist, What Do You View as Being the Most Rational Political Outlook?

[TaraJo]

I'd like to say Libertarian, but I've seen too many powerful groups and individuals who are more than willing to use their influence to cement their own power, even if it's less than beneficial to the rest of us for them to do that. So, were the government to just let them do as they will, I could easily see them turn into their own defacto government (think like Shinra from Final Fantay VII).

But even if we changed things as they are now to eliminate some of those powerful groups, the problem would probably just morph into another form. Specifically, there's corruption in the military industrial complex and the prison industrial comples. Owners of prisons/defense contractors lobby congress to not only do business with their company, but they lobby them into policy which favors their company. If we changed the law to eliminate those, he companies are still going to be there and they're going to find a way to work with the new rules to keep themselves in power.

If you want my opinion, I think the best thing we can do to help our nation is to get more of an idea of flexibility of law instead of thinking that, since the founding fathers put such-and-such together 250 years ago, wehave to have that now. I think they were intelligent enough to realize that situations and people can change and that the government would need to be able to change with it (heck, they were willing to change things right off the bat by abandoning the articles of confederation and adopting the bill of rights instead).