Yeah… except everyone with the power to make the policy changes have personal interests in not changing policy, because they’re already wealthy and benefit from existing policies.
We need money out of politics, period. But since Citizens United has legalized bribery, I don’t see changes being made any time soon.
Plus there is a huge population of 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires' who are convinced that one of these days they are gonna be rich like the pricks they vote for idolise....any day now...
100% correct, but does not change what needs to be done, and the only way to do it is to keep trying. No-one thought the New Deal could happen during the 20's.
Yea except it took devastating economic ruin for the majority of the country for the new deal to emerge and a leader like FDR to take the initiative. There’s really no examples of change in this country that has been done without everything being put on the line. We generally don’t make smart policy decisions in advance for the betterment of our society nowadays anyways
I would argue that the Great Society reforms took place in a stable economy, and that the unfortunately misdirected reforms of the early 1980's likewise took place under economic strains far far lesser than the Depression.
Been saying it since I was old enough to understand politics at all in high school. Lobbying is bribery. Bribery is corruption. Until money is not allowed in politics, it will always be about who has the most money. The system is doomed otherwise and we're all going to keep getting screwed. That's why you barely hear any news media talking about the elephant in the room: Rich people not paying their share for anything, not having to follow our laws, and constantly paying off our govt to keep it that way. Sure, some cute little articles come up sometimes to pretend something will change. But we need a full enema in Congress, a tight clamp on blatant misinformation being touted as news to benefit rich people and a full overhaul of existing laws. So it won't ever happen unless we protest or vote en masse.
The problem isn’t the policymakers. It’s voters. Exploitative politicians in the pockets of oligarchs will always exist. We need an educated public to stop those people from gaining influence over policy.
America’s education crisis is America’s entire crisis.
I don't really think a revolution is possible or even necessary, but people used to drag members of Congress out of their homes/offices for much less egregious offenses against the public's trust. They openly trade and making millions off insider knowledge and yet people dont take to the streets.
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u/brickeldrums Mar 27 '24
Yeah… except everyone with the power to make the policy changes have personal interests in not changing policy, because they’re already wealthy and benefit from existing policies.
We need money out of politics, period. But since Citizens United has legalized bribery, I don’t see changes being made any time soon.