Libs vs Cons

So, I've been thinking about liberals and conservatives. Now this is just a thought and it is probably wrong but...

I'm thinking that maybe the whole difference (at least economically) stem from the distrust of people in power. Liberals distrust powerful people in buisiness and those with money. While conservatives distrust the powerful people in unions and government. Both are probably right to some extent to be skeptical of those in powerful positions. It seems to me that where you put your distrust chips determines where you are politically.

So, liberals distrust buisiness. They don't trust buisiness with environmental issues (reasonable), so they try to (over)regulate that. They don't trust buisiness with labor issues (reasonable at one time), so they support unions.

Liberals distrust people with money (ie everyone who isn't "poor"). They don't trust us to give to charities, so they take the money using taxes and distribute it using social programs. They don't trust us with our retirement, so they take our money and sock it into social security. They don't trust us with our children, so they give sweeping powers to child services. They don't trust us with guns*, so they make it harder to get them.

Conservatives distrust unions. We don't trust them to not become power hungry and corrupt. I don't know what we do about this other than create right-to-work states so that the unions don't have a monopoly on labor. We don't trust them to not inhibit a company with combersome demands. We don't trust them not to be linked with organized labor.

Conservatives distrust government. We don't trust the government to be reasonable on a case by case basis. We don't trust it to be efficient with our money and time. We don't trust it to regulate our lives. We don't drust it enough to give it unchallenged control over our lives.

Basically, I side with the conservatives on these issues and here's why. I feel that there are market powers that keep buisinesses (somewhat) in check, as long as we keep the anti-trust laws on the books. But there are none for unions because they have a monopoly and the same for the government. If either of those make a bad (or inefficient) decision, they may not ever be held accountable and if they are, it takes a long time.

Well thats about it. It's late and I'm tired.

Feel free to leave comments if you think this whole post is crap. It might be.

* I don't own a gun but I know that it is my right to buy one if I choose.