In both countries the ruling elite are at war with each other.
In the Uk Mrs Mays cabinet are split over paying nurses and policemen a living wage.
In the US the GOP control everything but cant agree on a health policy.
In both cases the left and right of the parties are at war.
There is a #fuckthepoor wing that wants to screw people who arent millionaires and opposing them a group who are scared of losing their public funded wage.
The latter are not as honest as the former who are honest in their position. They hate poor folks as well but they do need some of them to vote in their favour.
Capitalism is failing to meet the needs of our societies. The politicians have no solutions and what we are seeing is the manifestation of this reality.
Wrong. Capitalism is what has allowed the first world country's to provide for their people. The poorest of the poor in the USA is among the wealthiest one percent in the world. Capitalism has made that possible. The reason why idiots, like you, continue to spout this nonsense is because you have no clue what the rest of the world is like.
It had a good run but it is failing us now. Our politics are but one manifestation of that reality.
We don't have capitalism. We have crony capitalism which is thanks to corrupt politicians, and multinational corporations who have bought those politicians. Capitalism unfettered is a bad thing. Just like socialism unfettered is actually even worse. The reality is there has been no real capitalism for over one hundred years.
Crony capitalism? That is just an acknowledgment that the capitalist system is failing to meet our needs and you refuse to look critically at the system that we use to organize the production and distribution of goods and services in our society. So you say that it is not capitalism, you say it is crony capitalism, as if it is something wholly different than the private distribution of goods and services. It's absurd. Our government was built from its creation to protect private wealth. And it is capitalism which has allowed people to build the wealth necessary to dominate our politics and mold society into what we see today. Capitalism is the vehicle which has driven us to this point in time where our governments appear to be in crisis. And certainly we can see in our country, when we look at the person occupying the White House, that things have gone a little off the rails.