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Real Change: America Needs to Update Its Operating System
When the recession finally hits — and it will likely hit within the next two years — the immediate reaction will be to likely blame President Trump for all of the global economic woes. But the real root issue of a lot of the problems we’re seeing today (income inequality, wage stagnation, national debt, increase in cost of living (education, housing, healthcare) are attributed to the policies that began in the 1980s with the so-called Reagan-Thatcher Revolution. This is not to say conservatives are solely to blame for the situation America is in, but they initiated it and liberals validated it.
If we really want to bring systemic change in America, it’s not by voting for this or that candidate. It’s by undoing the choke-hold of the two-party system, bringing about serious campaign finance reform, preventing gerrymandering, and balancing the need to enhance the voting power of coastal areas (which is where most people will be living in the future and are more diverse) and protecting smaller states (that are more homogenous but economically / technologically less vibrant) in the interest of keeping the system of checks and balances. In essence, we will likely need a constitutional convention as the existing model will likely prove to be too polarizing and prone to manipulation to adequately bring about substantive change.
