Asclepias
Diamond Member
I think people are really in denial. Once you define your reality most people cant take it when they discover that reality may be erroneous. They then get to work proving they were right which is much more important to them than being wrong and correcting their views.I separate idealism from existential reality as much as I can, or at least try to. My 'Ideal' political economic philosophy is Henry George's, but I also realize that particular philosophy has zero chance of ever taking off, as most people have never heard of him, for one, and far fewer than that have ever read him, for two, and for three, his philosophy requires a high standard of morality, something which most Americans actually abhor and detest,, so I go with paleo-liberalism in the vein of LBJ/Humphrey, incremental ism, tempered and balanced by a strong bias towards Patrick Moynihan's brand of political realism. Our current 'system' no longer produces such people, and it shows in the results over the last 30-40 years.
Americans are obviously happy with the new status quo and runaway elitist corruption, because they keep voting for it in droves and in both 'Parties', so I don't see why so many are complaining; our government and politicians actually do represent American culture and most Americans and their values. It's a perfect mirror for looking at what's hot and what's not.