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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24545)	8/18/2012 6:08:01 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Those who succeed in politics are far more likely to be ethically challenged ruthless scumbags. So setting up a system that they can manipulate to their advantage is a type of social darwinism that is bad for the lang term of the human race. I can't argue with that. ( I would add that it applies regardless of party.) But you have not demonstrated that the system in question is any more manipulable than any alternative. You don't get social Darwinsm with ad-hoc manipulation at the margins. You'd have have built-in, systemic manipulation before you even brush against social Darwinism. We've been discussing for some days now and no one has come up with any examples of potential systemic manipulation in favor of any political cohort.