Originally posted by
Chris
Well, it's your country, so you're somewhat obligated to have faith. I hope you're right, but personally, I just don't see it happening.
There are so many things wrong with the political, social, economic and cultural structure that it is rotting from within and I don't even see the mechanism, or even the will to repair it. Even if it was there, I think things are too far gone. You only have to look at one section of it, such as healthcare, higher education, the prison-industrial complex, the military-industrial complex or pretty much anything else you would care to look at to see how difficult, if not impossible it would be to fix these things whilst the current structures are in place.
I believe the only way to fix them is to demolish the whole rotting edifice and start anew, on a completely different footing and on a much more basic level and a much smaller scale. It is in everybody's interest to keep the racket going, so it will, until it no longer can, then it will collapse like a house of cards. What will emerge from the rubble will be a much better and fairer system, I feel.
To take one example, healthcare, the US spends three times as much as a percentage of GDP on healthcare than the UK, with much worse health outcomes. This is because most of that money is wasted, it goes into the pockets of private insurance firms, overpaid doctors, lawyers, hospital administrators and a slew of middlemen. Every participant is like a pig at the trough and they gorge themselves on sick people's money and to be fair, overcharge even insurance companies to a ridiculous degree, not by a little, but by thousands of percent in many cases. If you cut out the middlemen, all these giant corporations would go bankrupt and millions of health professionals would be out of work or have much reduced incomes, especially the middlemen. So, politically, that is just never going to happen.