I am a libertarian ...

[mick063]

42. I am for the ideology

that benefits the greatest amount of people.

I still have much to learn when it comes to differentiating the specifics.

Whenever a small group of people benefit at the expense of many others, I have cause for concern. On the other hand, I believe those that contribute to help not only themselves, but to help others as well, should be rewarded for their effort.

I do fully understand this much:

Take any given government, organization, corporation, cooperative, or group, apply the human elements of greed, fear, hate, envy, and those elements will utterly destroy the social fabric no matter how well the social structure was originally conceived or intended.

From that previous statement, I believe there is no perfect format. Any conceivable social system will work if ethically applied. There have been cases where feudal monarchy has served the citizens well. There have been cases where representative government has not served the citizens well.

It all boils down to the human element.

As of now, our formerly great, well conceived nation is corrupt and does not serve the citizens well. Not because of the government format, but because our "representative" leaders, as a whole, do not intend to serve our citizens well.