History...... Then & Now

I must say that times have not changed much in the aspect of politics. He was arguing that the most serious source of faction was the diversity of opinion in political life which leads to dispute over fundamental issues such as what regime or religion should be preferred. One serious source of faction today is healthcare and if we should make everyone have it. My personal take in this issue is that healthcare is something that everyone should have because you never know when you are going to need it. You may be healthy today but that does not mean you won’t get sick enough to where you might have to be hospitalized for something a little more serious than your common cold. I say if they make us buckle our seatbelts to prevent us from harming ourselves then they should make us get health insurance so that we can keep us from the dangers that are preventable. So I feel that even though these are two different aspect of the political world it still brings about the same amount of diversity. His political argument might have been over regime/religion and ours now is over healthcare. I feel that no matter what politics will always be divided. Now I don’t feel that by destroying the Liberty will make anything any better. He does make a valid point about how the liberties being essential to political life and Americans have been fighting for it since the American Revolution. The more I read his argument the more I had to agree with him on how you can’t create a society that is homogeneous in opinions and interests. This is still true today because everyone has different opinions and then you have the followers that just join the bandwagon because it sounds good. His next statement about majority faction being a problem because of popular sovereignty is preventing the minority faction from gaining power. This is so true no matter where you go in life. If the majority likes it then the majority wins. The minority is left to deal with the discussion that was made. Now sometimes you might have a time when the majority takes into consideration what the minority wants, but this is not something that happens all the time. Even though reading the No. 10 was hard for me to read I did understand it better when I seen how Wikipedia broke it down. It is funny how history repeats itself. What was happening back then when he wrote this is still prevalent in today’s society, just maybe in a different form. So I have to say that his argument still holds today. Even though I might change the way he says resolve some of the matters it is still true in what he said. I don’t think that politics is going anywhere any time soon so it is one of those things that we have to learn to live with. Destroying it will never happen so we must learn to make it work for the better of the people. This was a great eye opener on how history is still the same as it was back then.