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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: skinowski who wrote (9492)9/15/2009 10:45:57 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
<<<Throughout human history the strong could abuse the weak. Therefore, having a big benevolent dictatorship which we all together elect -- and which always likes to do a little redistributing -- must have a powerful appeal, on a subliminal level.>>>

Throughout human history there have always been examples of how civilization made tremendous progress under a benevolent ruler. But we all know those were exceptional cases and that the norm was for the strong to abuse the weak.

Our founding fathers knew all about human nature and designed our system that addressed those concerns.

By and large we are still an experiment - a work in progress, but I am optimistic that we can make government work. We have put in place a lot of checks and balances and I agree more needs to be done.

Ultimately however, we need government to function - no matter how we define government. That means, as a civilization, we need a better educated populous that can elect higher quality representatives to perform government services.

Enabling and encouraging leaders that have limited intelligence and no respect for education and intellectual pursuits is a recipe for a self fulfilling prophecy about not being able to trust government and perpetuate a vicious cycle.

Bottom line, it is about people and government by the ....and so forth.



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