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Because people are selfish by human nature. People are competitive by nature. Self preservation is a powerful instinct. And don't get me started on the biggest reason people think they are somehow superior and/or need to "save" others. It's hard enough to get consensus among 9 people. Among 900,000,000?
And I'm not saying it has to be that, I'm just saying that is and it will never change.
With such trust in your fellow man, it is no wonder you feel the way you do. The Calvinists in early Colonial America felt that way too. Men are evil and cannot be trusted with rights and privileges therefore we must have a King who is divinely inspired to know better than everyone else and can tell everyone what to do and think. Fortunately the other colonists eventually outnumbered them. All documented right here:
I recommend it as a book on understand who we are and where we came from as a country.
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