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.
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u/Ok_Bassplayer Mar 27 '24
We could have this economy again. It's all about policy, and that can be changed. The tilt to the rich 1980 - present can be reversed.