Human Nature

[Ivan Denisovich]

I don't see the solution to many of our problems as political at all, but rather as educational.  That's a big part of the reason I am blaming human nature now.  Our collective laziness and intellectual dishonesty have caught up with us, just as you said above.

Education is political though so in the end US problems are political, in my view at least. I also wouldn't blame human nature as it would imply that those caught into fascist propaganda are worse and inherently flawed, where in my view they might be walking sacks of shit but no different in essence to any other human being. If human nature were to blame then everyone would vote on trump elsewise it would mean that some people are naturally better, not simply better informed, educated or plainly well off enough to disregard fascist rhetoric.

This is also why I am not at all sure that politicians can solve many of our problems for us, though they must of course talk as if they can.  Many of them seem to be followers rather than leaders, as Trump has demonstrated.  Our real options may be more limited and difficult than we imagine, so of course many people vote for the impossible.

I'm quite sure that politicians can solve majority of US problem or at least most pressing ones (healthcare, imprisonment rate, unfair taxes). It's not lack of means that is problem but lack of vision, just like in Poland where almost nobody can see past neoliberalism and inequality it promotes and then wonders why extremists are gaining popularity. If people perceive state as continuously failing them then they might want to tear it down, simple as that.