The history of last 4 decades suggest the american polity lacks the wherewithal to effectively address chronic economic malaise. Most victims in the pot would not rebel effectively against being slowly roasted to death so long as the temperature is periodically turned down slight for short interval in great rousing ceremonies.
America won't embrace anything like a significant and effective change to its current course of barely-controlled-flight-into-terrain unless it were to simultaneously experience very acute social and economic dislocation that would crush opposition to institutional change, while regaining fiscal spending power to effectively implement the change. otherwise we'll fly into the ground maybe a little to the left or right, but we can't avoid hitting the ground.
The only way I see this happening is defeat in
America won't embrace anything like a significant and effective change to its current course of barely-controlled-flight-into-terrain unless it were to simultaneously experience very acute social and economic dislocation that would crush opposition to institutional change, while regaining fiscal spending power to effectively implement the change. otherwise we'll fly into the ground maybe a little to the left or right, but we can't avoid hitting the ground.
The only way I see this happening is defeat in
