On a sidenote, my belief of this is largely why I've withdrawn from the "right vs left" arguments or the "Democrat vs Republican" arguments. Frankly, if I'm going to argue against anyone, I'm going to argue against the concept of politicians altogether. Because arguing about 'what we can do with social security' is irrelevant, because even if the guy is selling that to get elected, that doesn't mean he'll actually put it into action when he's in office. Far more often, all these happy little ideas get talked about in the debates, then conveniently forgotten when its too much of a politcally turbulent issue.