I doubt it will be fixed without a major shift in the average American attitude. Yall over the pond still put too much emphasis on “everyone to their own devices”, rugged individualism ideology. It clearly doesn’t work.
But for the average American to understand that uplifting the lowest of the society literally helps EVERYONE (except the ultra wealthy capitalists) to a better life. Americans need to understand that chasing the possibility of becoming one of the elites, one of the billionaires - which, let’s be honest, is a daydream at best for 99.999% of the population - is not what life should be about. You don’t have to have 80%+ of the country suffering just to enable 0.001% to live like kings and the 19.99% to live an okay life. We have the technology, the science, the ability to ensure that baseline quality of life for literally everyone on this planet.
It just needs to come down to everyone having the base understanding that it’s not the [insert today’s favourite minority group to alienate]s causing their issues, but the capitalists seething the culture war so they can get richer.
And Dems are the problem too. They’re just as deep in the shit as the Republicans. Both parties need to be disbanded, most members banned from holding a public office, and then a reform wave of progressives needs to happen - ban lobbying, ban financial donations above a certain amount (I’d say $1000 per person per year is a valid limit), strict campaigning guidelines, and strict penalties for not delivering campaign promises. Keep your politicians in check, have a proper recall procedure, term limits, transparency in financials as a baseline, and so on.
I doubt it will be fixed without a major shift in the average American attitude. Yall over the pond still put too much emphasis on “everyone to their own devices”, rugged individualism ideology. It clearly doesn’t work.
But for the average American to understand that uplifting the lowest of the society literally helps EVERYONE (except the ultra wealthy capitalists) to a better life. Americans need to understand that chasing the possibility of becoming one of the elites, one of the billionaires - which, let’s be honest, is a daydream at best for 99.999% of the population - is not what life should be about. You don’t have to have 80%+ of the country suffering just to enable 0.001% to live like kings and the 19.99% to live an okay life. We have the technology, the science, the ability to ensure that baseline quality of life for literally everyone on this planet.
It just needs to come down to everyone having the base understanding that it’s not the [insert today’s favourite minority group to alienate]s causing their issues, but the capitalists seething the culture war so they can get richer.
And Dems are the problem too. They’re just as deep in the shit as the Republicans. Both parties need to be disbanded, most members banned from holding a public office, and then a reform wave of progressives needs to happen - ban lobbying, ban financial donations above a certain amount (I’d say $1000 per person per year is a valid limit), strict campaigning guidelines, and strict penalties for not delivering campaign promises. Keep your politicians in check, have a proper recall procedure, term limits, transparency in financials as a baseline, and so on.