Maybe. Hard to say what would have worked at this point, without sounding like we were caught by Scooby Doo. "It would have worked too, if it weren't for you meddling oligarchs!" Rome tried reforms too, but it was too late.
Hundy p. Aside from the sanity-thin norms holding back the American empire from pure naked tyranny, the whole thing was built on slaves and stolen land, and still is through the 13th amendment.
I was one of the kids who was raised to an ideal of inclusivity and egalitarianism that has never existed in the real America. I left, and now find myself an immigrant from a place that doesn't seem to exist. Sometimes I feel like a cryptid or something.
They should invent some kind of an intermediary layer between the voters and the elections to ensure that demagoguery and sensationalism cannot prevail. That would fix everything.
I can't help where I'm from, but I can control where I end up at least. Took my family back to the UK a few years ago, since we've only been Americans for a generation or so. Reason being, I don't have much hope that the US can improve materially without a full-on regime change - I think obviously the American system contained the seeds of its own destruction from the outset, but the final straw (pardon the mixed metaphor) was Citizens United, which ended up being basically golden handcuffs for all elected officials. Only they can reverse it, and they won't because it's their money. It would take some eucatastrophe to undo all that, so I'll just have to take to the streets elsewhere when the time comes.
Incredible, isn't it - the actual right wing extremists support Zionism, but being against that gets you painted as "too far right". I'm from America so I'm used to there being no such thing as left, but goddamn
It's a big part of why I left. I eventually became convinced you're right, and the people whose sole power it is to change are those who benefit from it.
A difference with too little distinction