I was having a conversation with a liberal and fellow Star Trek fan the other day. The point of their argument was that the Federation had a great political system, no money, everyone trying to achieve their full potential, and a social safety net for everyone. Since I enjoy pointing out gaps in logic I responded that there were no, or at least very few, people of Wal Mart in the Star Trek universe. Did they put them in reeducation camps, or kill them all during the Eugenics Wars? Where are they?
Personally, I like the political structure of the Federation. As conservative as I am, I'd gladly side with their socialistic approach, if I knew that the vast majority of people were working and contributing towards the same societal goals as myself. But then there are those people of Wal Mart. A Star Trek type of society cannot exist while there are so many parasites within it. It can never be anything more than a third world country.
Here we have the difference between liberals and myself, even though our ideals are basically the same. Liberals tend to believe that education and money can fix the people of Wal Mart. Fifty years of social experimentation have proven that idea wrong. The people of Wal Mart, for the most part, are what they are. Until the problem of what to do with them can be addressed, I prefer my societies a bit more Darwinian.
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