Short Take: How is viewing man as inherently good linked to changes Americans are seeing today?

So the God-rejecting don't see man as inherently sinful, as the Bible says, but that man is inherently good.

And the only actually real sinners, if there are sinners, according to them, are the oppressors that create the problems, that have created the problems in the world, like males and whites and Christians and heterosexuals imposing their oppressive injustice on the rest of the people in the world. The sinful nature of man, though, is exactly why the founders understood the sinful nature of man, and this is why they prescribed a limited government, a separation of powers in government, that you'd have states' rights instead of big federal government rights, you'd have the electoral college, you'd have more representation from spread out, you'd have a representative republic, you'd have a constitution with rule of law, you'd have three branches of government, and we wouldn't have a king ruling over us. All to try to separate and have checks and balances in that, what were they trying to do? They're trying to push back against a consolidation of power by a few people with sin natures that could oppress people. That's exactly why we have the government we do, according to the founders, but that's all being, you know, we need to burn it down today, right?

That's what we're hearing. The founders designed all this to restrain the sinful natures. So, the God-rejectors out there believe in man is good. This is why they want a call to defund the police. They don't, they think that you can leave people alone and they're going to do the right thing with, you know, community counselors or something. You know, if you treat people differently, if you give them enough money and put them in a different kind of environment, give them enough education, there won't be so much violence. This is why the left doesn't want jails, they want to let people out of jail, they don't want borders, they don't think we need those kind of laws.

Man's good. Create the right environment for them, educate them the right way, they're going to behave well. You know, poverty isn't the result, and this isn't always the case, but poverty isn't the result of bad choices or bad family situations that perpetuate it, you know, having children out of wedlock and all this and that, but it's a result of oppressors. It's not their fault because they're good. It's a result of those sinful oppressors and a lack of government help.