Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Letter to the editor:

Here’s why God would be Democrat

The writer of the Jan. 21 letter “God wants people to help others” expounds on the same old conservative claptrap, that government should not do anything to help the poor but individuals should take care of that. I must ask the writer what she thinks government is composed of. Well, the answer is individuals gathered together for the benefit of all individuals.

Private charity is great but lacks efficiency and the ability to cover large groups of people and is too arbitrary to do the job. In other words, some are helped more than others and most not at all, which is why governments have had to step in and take over the job.

I think God would want what would do the job best and wouldn’t fret about letting government take over when individual charity was found lacking. In other words, God must be a Democrat, don’t you think? He would not be bothered by some hidebound ideology that would let people starve and die from lack of medical care.

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