New York Governor Kathy Hochul Wants People To Believe In Their Government Again

[David Horn]

(08-26-2021, 02:36 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(08-26-2021, 04:55 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-25-2021, 12:11 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Yes, although the "libertarian approach to economics" and worship of "personal initiative" is part and parcel of "well serves the rich and powerful", and those "pandering to mass anger and mass superstition" ALSO even-more do the former (called neo-liberalism or free-market economics, trickle-down economics, social darwinism etc.). It's a complete package, each aspect bound up with the other, and the libertarian economics aspect is just as nefarious as the mass superstition aspect. Both aspects must be defeated now after 40 years of regression, or our nation and our world is headed for destruction.

And that's the problem that must be solved; one that probably can't be without a mass change of heart.  Note: the SJWs are making that much harder by giving practitioners of this philosophy plenty of ammunition to oppose change and, more to the point, reinforce the false values that need changing. The ideas of freedom to succeed and personal responsibility are essentially good.  They're part of the core beliefs of the nation.  Unfortunately, they've been easy to use for perverse purposes by the cynical and powerful.  We have billionaires building their own personal rocketships, and the public cheers them on.  Changing that will be a challenge.

I agree, although I note that the neo-liberal/prejudice practitioners no longer have the support of a tenuous majority of the American public, as shown by a 7 million vote loss in the general election popular vote, so they are seeking to maintain power through the state and federal gerrymandering still in place that followed the disaster on Nov.2, 2010, and through the Courts which they have managed to appoint through Sen. McConnell and the electoral college. It won't take a whole lot of hearts to change in order to move the political levers and shake the neo-liberals out of power, but given the systemic political power they have inherited, including a few compliant Democratic moderates, it will be tough.

I suspect the main hearts in need of arousal will be hearts of young millennials which have already been changed, but which need to assume their civic virtue enough to vote in midterm elections. Not to mention enough in sunny, glamorous, hispanic California to vote NO in the current recall election.

The hardest issue to overcome is the built-in conservatve structure of our system -- especially at the Federal level.  As long as Wyoming has the same number of Senators as California, change at the fundamental level will be impossible.  Break California into 10 states (fully legal to do that) and do the same with other large states, then there may be a fighting chance.