re: Why do liberals have so much faith in government?

In most cases, the government is just the means to punish those whom they are jealous of. They dont care about policy and dont even attempt foresight.

More accurately it is progressivism. It is heavily influenced by 19th century European thinkers, mainly German who believed that government's purpose was to actively serve the people it governed.

The thinking was that as society grew and became more sophisticated and industrialized there was an overarching need for a central authority to address the needs.It manifested itself in the growth of the bureaucracy. Initially it dealt with a way to get ahead of the growing Labor Movement in western societies. Keep the proletariat placated to a certain extent while protecting the positions of the patrician class. As society moved from rural agricultural to a more urban industrial mode there were vast inequities that were uncovered. The progressive movement came about to address it. You see it in trade and economic policy at first but it evolves to social services. See Social Security in 19th century Germany and Bismarck. In the US it influences indirectly people like the Prairie Populist like William Jennings Bryan, but the biggest proponents of it were the Republicans of the late Gilded Age like Teddy Roosevelt followed by Woodrow Wilson.

The belief was that society needed to be more ordered and the Jeffersonian ideal was quaint and not feasible any longer in an industrial society.These guys are heavily influenced by thinkers like John Dewey especially on the education end which he believed was the key to a more ordered society. Really, it is a belief that took hold and has not left and by the end of WWII was the prevalent position in the west . Call it the Great Liberal Consensus. It has a lot to do with a certain trust in institutions.

Read Dewey and other Intellectuals of the second half of the 19th century. They influenced a lot. .

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It’s very simple. Many leftists don’t believe in God, and because of this, they substitute the government for God.
And in other cases, they substitute the government for daddy.
Sometimes both.

Correct. The old liberals of the immediate post WWII period would today be characterized as Moderate Republicans. Guys like Moynihan and Henry Jackson and even JFK could not survive long in today's version of liberal progressivism....too conservative economically in the case of JFK. Too dependant on personal responsibility and being judgemental " defining deviancy down" in the case of Moynihan. And too much beholden to a strong no nonsense military like Scoop Jackson. Hell, even the 1970's and 80's Joe Biden would be characterized as a reactionary conservative by today's progressives.

Because government is a religion to them. They worship leftist politicians. That’s the entire answer.

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Moynihan

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I've long characterized him as the last good democrat.

But the political cabal today has coopted the name 'democrat' - not even the racist democrats were as bad as these modern imposters. In those days they had some historical momentum that nourished their racist belief system. Now, these modern democrats just just lie to their face every election cycle for their votes, and then work behind the scenes to keep their culture as dystopian as possible.

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Liberals have had control of the public school system since the Mid 90s... We are seeing the effects of that now. They have been trained.

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The hazed hippies & nerds from the 70’s & 80’s are now todays angry professors.

Government and Liberalism is there God.

If the government takes care of everything, then they have no responsibility. They can be free to live a carefree life and not worry about succeeding or achieving at anything. They don’t have to grow up and adult.