So you want to just give up on the whole endeavor, rather than trying to fix things? Plenty of European countries have strong welfare systems, comprehensive health care, etc., and they're not collapsing under their own weight. It is entirely possible to have social programs that are functional and successful. (Unless you mean to say that Americans are uniquely and inherently incapable of organizing in this way.)
But all of this is like saying "Man, the guy currently in charge of finances sucks...let's give the checkbook over to the compulsive spender"
Let's really take a step back, shall we?
I'll gladly admit that our system is out of control...many things, like healthcare and higher education are indeed a complete mess. But putting these things in the hands of the government? Really? This is a horribly bad idea.
I just keep going back to this...our government is a complete train wreck. So much in fact that the $$ to do many of these things is already there with no new taxing required. It's just being blown of thousands of insane money-drain projects, wasted in fruitless endeavors and going in the pockets of many people. The US government has already proven it cannot spend money wisely...why would anyone think that giving them even more is a good idea?
Seriously, I'm not talking conspiracy theories here...the US government is a financial disaster, this is a known fact. How can giving them even more of our money and even more control over our daily lives possibly be a good thing?
I haven't had a single good response to this question yet. I keep getting the "Well,
shouldn't one's government be capable of bla, bla, bla?" thrown back at me. Never do they address how dysfunctional our system currently is...they just skip right over that reality and go to the blindly optimistic phase.
I guess that in short, I'll gladly admit that things are seriously out of whack in this country...but asking the government to fix it isn't the solution.
Trump's problem is mainly being only associated with... Trump. This caricature of a multi billionaire, who's more than anything just a pop-cultural reference. There's no president here to be found. It's an open secret that a candidate has to be in large parts something of a white canvas, as to allow every voter to project her/his own image on him. And Trump has his whole persona already tattooed with his widely known past up to a level, where not even a single voter could fit there, let alone the word president.
To me, Trump is more of a wake up call than anything else.
He is an extremist clown, there's no doubt about it. But, like Bernie, he's actually being listened to this time. Why is this? So many people are just fed up with Washington. It is a mockery of what a political system should be. Congress is a fucking joke, our presidents have been a joke, we've endured decades of brutal "republican -vs- democrat" celebrity death matches, decades of never ending slander campaigns...it goes on and on. People are tired of it and often, tired people rush to the arms of extremists.
