Your job is to save the USA WITHOUT destroying capitalism. What would you do? What can you do? Basically—how can you make things like they were during Obama’s presidency?
As a lib my first thought would be: “implement universal health care.” But wouldn’t it be struck down immediately by the SCOTUS? Wouldn’t the health insurance companies just overthrow you? Won’t the corporate press immediately start treating you like Bernie (or even worse) in order to turn the populace against you?
Please discuss. Also I am not Biden looking for ideas. Nor do I work in the White House.
I don't think there is a good way to bring standards of living up without doing some level of extreme spending/socialization/nationalization of industries and jubilee. Pot legalization and and expunging prisoners convicted of drug charges hurts the prison industrial complex and gives cops less to do, and creates more hungry people that you cant exploit for pennies because they're incarcerated. You can't nationalize the health insurance industry because it controls a lot of capital. Debt forgiveness would also be doing too much spending and would harm the financialization of the economy.
I think the most capital friendly option would be to create a lot of market schemes for public transit and other infrastructure. You dont even have to do it well, but currently a lot of young people lack the ability to own a car, so investing in local level bussing and maybe a better rail system to please industry would be good. Also from that just allowing the total monopolization of the economy.
The real problem here though is that America is doing :this-is-fine: , everything is still making money, the next recession is going to allow for a lot more capital mergers and the populace is disorganized and browbeaten and opiated at every turn to allow for a maximal exploitation.
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