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've thought about this scenario and the way I'd end capitalism would be to basically contrive a scenario to become more or less a dictator and destroy the other branches of government, only to use my newfound direct control of the armed forces to betray the rich. Basically like an Order 66 against people who own yachts, just get them all at once before they can react. I couldn't see any way to do it without fundamentally subverting the electoral system.
I'm really torn on this because part of me thinks it's entirely possible (even likely!) if the right person were to rise to the occasion, but another part of me says there is zero incentive to do it so why would they? If you become president, you, your descendants, and your friends are set for life. You would be taking this massive risk with coup like this for purely ideological reasons, some sort of new American nationalism.
The American president can't be like a new emperor who heroically leads their subjects to victory. It can't be Ceasar, Napoleon, or Wilhelm. It is one of those late-empire emperors that is subservient to the wills of some greater power, but as long as they behave they get to be the special boy in the Imperial Palace. If something were to truly rock this country that might change this calculus but I don't see the president ever seriously upsetting the order.
Of course. It's not a practical plan unless you are the person running because to get elected in the first place you'd have to pretend to be one of the ghouls until the very last moment. Before the turn this candidate would be indistinguishable from an ordinary fascist (or at best milquetoast liberal) to everyone except yourself. Especially towards the end where you're deliberately provoking a crisis to seize total authority, everyone with a brain cell will rightfully believe you're trying to be Mussolini 2: McDonalds Edition. On the other hand, if propaganda wins and leftism dies it's a not infeasible path to a better future.
This