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Re: Poor Big Healthcare
Originally Posted by bode
Originally Posted by CoccoBill
Everyone knows the government is completely incompetent, that's why we only let it take care of the nation's defense, policies, justice system, education, taxation, public safety and couple other minor things that they can handle.
they do a great job fucking most of those things up, so why not let them fuck up healthcare even worse than it already is?
Actually, the fuckup comes from special interests imposing power on the public interests. For example, one of the biggest problems with the justice system is the privatization and profitization of prisons which has made a ginormous system of false justice (over-criminalization and kickbacks, etc)
Without going into it a whole lot, all this garbage that Reagan popularized about how government is the problem is exactly that - garbage. By definition, democratic governance is the public sector, and by definition, the public sector governing itself is that which perpetuates democracy and freedoms. Don't repeat the same exact crap the the morons do while having zero understanding of how stuff actually works. If you think we'd be better off with an oligarchy then, by all means, support regulation of the system by the private special interests, but if you support actual democracy then what you want is a very strong public sector that regulates itself and this regulation will be known as government.
Politicians have framed the debate into a logistically false form. Government is not and cannot be inherently the problem. In fact, government is necessary for society to actually work. Do not think in terms of government vs non-government (because that is an illusion), but think in terms of who runs the government (the few or the many, the monarchs or the people)
Also, superb examples of nations where the special interests rule are known as third-world countries. Take away the US public sector governance (publicly funded infrastructure, fire stations, police, etc) and you'll find that your neighborhood or apartment complex shortly becomes a shithole slum just like it works in the rest of the world because the ruling special interests have no interest in supporting it or you. Reagan's rhetoric is the exact paradigm under which third world countries operate
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