When you specified ‘solutions’, you were again treating blisters rather than the root infection. The root cause is the centralization of money and power. Fix a leak here and there and, if there is pressure, a leak will spring elsewhere. Those who have inordinate amounts of money and power will always cause ‘leaks’ everywhere. It’s the dynamic and not the ‘structure’ per se.
The diagnosis is illness through inordinate centralized accumulation of money and power. The cure must address that root cause.
How does the illness act? Money and power are leveraged by threatening people’s livelihoods and health. They are used to distract, deflect and limit people’s focus, ability and energy to act together in their own interest.
Therefore solutions must be ways to preferably abolish or at least to neuter this centralization of money and power. National health care, which you relegated to mere ‘specific policies’, becomes highly germane. So is ‘tax the rich’ but that falls way short. Two demands a-la FDR would go a long way. Universal health care and guaranteed minimum income. With those, people will have less fear and more time and energy to organize in order to face the centralized centers of money and power and to find ways to clean the corruption.
Do the people of the US have the will to demand a new New Deal? Are such dynamics still possible in the US? Maybe or maybe not. I hope it’s still possible. Anything less will cause the corruption to continue and grow. Thankfully, the ‘American’ evil empire is almost ending, bar a Samson-ic nuclear war, and the rest of the world may escape sinking with the US. A new world leader, China, is emerging who is currently ‘driven’ by peace, trade and construction rather than war, exploitation and destruction.
Finally, one of the biggest obstacles to effective change in the US are those idiots who accuse everyone else of being idiots pre-emptively in order to narrow the options. I, for one, hope a new New Deal is possible because I’ve lived 22 years in the states and the people there are, like everywhere else, mostly nice decent people.
