Regardless of your geographic location, religion, heritage, party affiliation, or your firmness on historical texts; what is it that you believe government’s role to be - or should be?

If you’d like to elaborate, what is it you think your local or national government gets right and gets wrong?

I pose the question because I believe this fundamental belief is through which we observe and react to politics. There are things we want or don’t want government to do but often legislation or special interests or geographic or political threats get in the way. Our reactions to politics are often, but not wrongly, short-sighted and emotional without context or wisdom. I don’t see much dialog around this topic and I wonder if people subscribe to political parties without really considering if the party aligns with what they genuinely believe government’s responsibility is or should be.

  • SavvyWolfEnglish
    15•1 month ago

    I think an ideal government should do the following:

    • Provide essential services to citizens for free, such as education, public transport and healthcare.
    • Implement legislation that ensures everyone is free to express themselves however they want if it doesn’t hurt anyone else.
    • Implement legislation that protects individuals from hostile people and companies.
    • Encourage economic growth through healthy competition between companies.
    • A strong justice system that is transparent, fair and ammendable.
    • Defence of the country’s borders and interests.

    Of course, this is just wishful thinking on my part - I’m sure a lot of this will fall apart when you start asking how we’d implement them or how we’d fund them.