Obamacare polls - Democracy at work!

Every couple months we get new poll results about how Americans react to the Obama/Democrat healthacare plan. First the people seemed to like it, then they seemed to hate it, now it's around 50/50... My question is: Who cares what the people think?! If people like something and want it, it doesn't automatically mean that it is good! Unfortunately the US is now a prime example of democracy at work - mob rule has won in Washington, D.C. Appareantly nobody told these people ("these people" mainly refers to the Democratic Party Politburo: Nancy "Pom-pom" Pelosi, Joe "Bobblehead" Biden, and Barack "The Big Red" Obama) that democracy was considered primitive over 2000 years ago, and socialism joined it with the collapse of the USSR. I'd have nothing against the Democrats organizing their own little Sovetskiy Soyuz someplace, but I feel quite sorry for the hundreds of millions of Americans who might be forced into this healthcare serfdom. In the case of democracy, even Aristotle concluded it was an unworkable scam - and he lived only a few generations after the abominable system was introduced in Athens. Incidentally, few people know that Socrates was one of the first to "die by democracy" - a majority of people voted he should die. In a real State of Law (best represented in the form of a Monarchy) it doesn't matter how many people want something done - if it is against the Law, it will not happen. This is best discussed by Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 pamphlet titled simply The Law (I highly recommend it!). And therein lies the rub! What's the point of polls on such ridiculous subjects as Obamacare? Socialized medicine violates every moral principle in conservative and liberal ethics! Mainly, it violates the most important principle in conservative and liberal thought - private property rights. Polls are just another way for politicians to get a feel at which absolutely immoral reform they should have a crack at next time Congress/Parliament/Legislature is in session.




Frédéric Bastiat - The Best of the French