A good expression, Richard, for how you see the current affairs. I want to provide a larger view.
The American Dream in the modern sense of the word became available with the New Deal. One can describe this as a left-wing take-over (for which we should be glad) right after the Great Depression. With the New Deal, we got a decent floor underneath our society that did not exist before.
This New Deal was not forged in a democratic process, but rather from that Great Depression. It was a reaction.
The larger point I am trying to make is that our form of democracy did not go there by itself. And what we have seen since Ronald Reagan is that the New Deal has slowly been undermined, continuously so, no matter the president in charge.
What we need is a democracy that functions well for all, and that deals with the various societal powers in a smart way.
The Founding Fathers never had a two-party system in mind. It is the logical result of the way we vote in districts and having a strong president as winner in top.
If you want change of this system, then the Founding Fathers gave us a tiny door to crawl through.
I hope you want to join the Local Revolutions to have a first beginning possible for the better form of voting.
It won't change the US overnight, but it will make greater support possible for what the New Deal brought us as a society. We can make the world a tad brighter for those now suppressed in winner-take-all.
Here is an image of what we give our bottom ten percent in society and how systems truly change the setup of what the bottom gets (the results are statistically significant). Look at the two democratic systems to the right. None goes as low as the other two democratic systems.
'The Best Democracy, the Worst Democracy'
We can do something about it. Come join.
