It is DEFENSE.
If the nation is vulnerable militarily, then the point of government is to defend it. An opposing army is too big for one individual to take on himself. For that reason, we band together to fight enemies.
Disease has long been recognized as a government-level battle, and is similar in every way to the fight against military invasion and conquest.
Disease -- biological, social, and spiritual -- are all repugnant, but we forget sometimes the rational bases of some of our social and spiritual prohibitions. They have been rejected in the past because they are danger.
Homosexuality should be fought everywhere.
we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, ...., we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. -- Winston Churchill, June 1940
The Communists in our government and on MSNBC can make the same exact argument about the Tea Party and they do.
To twist this into some argument about National defense is truly one of the most bizarre points I have ever read on FR,
A+Bert is that you?
Read the Federalists Papers, the letters between Jefferson and Madison, learn about George Washington and then will you understand the formula that created the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
You know there was a time when man was truly free in America before all of these absurd laws, social engineering that countries would build monuments to us because we were such an inspiration that all changed when Teddy Roosevelt came along and decided to infect our political system with his progressive ideas. Don’t forget he was a Republican.
As a conservative are you happy how you are represented by the GOP? The GOP isn’t conservative, the RNC isn’t conservative, neither of them will ever be and conservatives better wake up because we keep voting for the WHIG party.