Starting from the fact that The NHS was introduced by Bismark in the German Empire. for the same reasons that it is sustained today by "democracies": populism.
Since the introduction of NHS in England no new hospital was constructed until recently. Democracy, an element of the liberal state, lives on premises that it can not itself guarantee. (Bockenforde). It is based on the idea that people will not act or vote for their inmediate interests but will vote for anything that maintain the common good forever. That is absolutely false. The only thing that maintain democracy is not democracy, but the morality of the people. That morality is contunuously underminded by democracy itself by means of the logic of populism and the formation of majorities that produce false and impossible and incompatible political promises for different groups of people. That divides and confront ones with others. It is based on the idea that a million idiot votes within an urn produces wise decissions. On the idea that consensus produce truth. Democracy is destined to be hyaked by false democrats that do not believe in democracy but want to abuse it from inside . They are the worst antidemocrats. And the responsibles of that hyaking are te dumb people that believe acritically in democracy. 2014-12-16 15:44 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>: > > > On 15 Dec 2014, at 19:51, LizR wrote: > > What is funny - as well as sad and frightening - is the number of people >> here who apparently don't believe in democracy, even in principle. >> Democracy is the idea that we can elect people to do things for everyone >> else (the NHS, conservation, social security, infrastructure, regulations, >> police, army science etc etc). Yet all I can see here is people saying that >> it doesn't work. I think the truth is that it can be hijacked and THEN it >> doesn't work. The NHS (despite everything) was one of the greatest >> achievements of the 20th century, after all. And it was introduced by a >> government because of its beliefs and principles. >> > > I agree completely with you. Like academies, democracies are the worst > except for anything else. > Many people criticize the system, and this *benefits* those who pervert > the system. Our democracies are sick (and partially hijacked by corporatist > interests), but this needs we must heal them, not condemn it. > > Bruno > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
