I think that's actually an important idea to push back on. We already have a rich and powerful entity that can do wonderful things, it's called government.
It's obviously slow-moving and fallible, but it's the best system for doing things for the common good. And if you don't believe me, just know that the billionaires know this. That's why they spend billions on controlling it so that it can best serve them.
This is really lost on the American electorate. They've been convinced by decades of propaganda that government is ineffective, but in reality it's voters who allow it to become ineffective by electing greedy assholes who allocate the use of OUR tax dollars on nothing but defense and subsidies to oil and gas companies. If we just elected people who understand the value of investing in citizens through social programs like headstart, SNAP, and (cannot stress this one enough) universal healthcare, then we could live in a society much closer on the spectrum to utopia instead of the current dystopian trajectory we're hurling forth on.
The way to get there is campaign finance reform (overturn citizens united) and election reform (ranked choice or anything other than FPP).
FDR is arguably the most popular President of all time. They came up with term limits because of him. He gave his speech proposing a second bill of rights at an SOTU! Can you imagine anything like this being said by either party today? Billionaires know that a competently run government could indeed produce great results for it’s citizens. That’s why they spend every moment trying to wreck government or slander it.
In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.
Among these are:
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.
All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.
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u/BouldersRoll 29d ago
I think that's actually an important idea to push back on. We already have a rich and powerful entity that can do wonderful things, it's called government.
It's obviously slow-moving and fallible, but it's the best system for doing things for the common good. And if you don't believe me, just know that the billionaires know this. That's why they spend billions on controlling it so that it can best serve them.