xaara

Something interesting I learned in my political science class at college was that people tend to be liberal when it comes to large things but conservative on the small. For instance, you ask - should we have clean air, healthy ecosystems? Why, yes. But then you ask - do you want to drive a smaller car, do you want to limit the number of children you can have? Why, no. Do you support helping the poor and allowing everyone to have an education? Yes, but no on the higher taxes. Maybe in a world as large as the one we live in, it's hard to think that a sacrifice on your own personal part would be needed, or have an affect on the whole.

But it is really annoying when, for instance, our government refuses to completely destroy its stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons, and then goes ballistic when another country wants one.