| The question really isn't whether or not it's broken. It's more of a question of 'for whom it is broken'. Or, more accurately; what is the true purpose to the state and how well does it fulfill that purpose? If you assume that the purpose to the state is to carefully and thoughtfully use the resources and powers granted to it by the public to serve the public then, yes, the system is utterly broken. It's so completely and fundamentally broken that it is not salvageable. However if the purpose of the state is use the political power granted to it to advance the interests of people who are politically connected to the state... then it works very very very well. In fact what people call 'corruption' is fundamental to how politics is able to function in the first place! Get rid of the 'corruption' and get 'money out of politics' then you eliminate the purpose, reason, and forces that caused the state to come into existence. Any time you attempt to exercise political power to enact any sort of change to the country you must give the powerful people of your country a reason to go along with you. Whether your goal is to eliminate poverty, save the environment, or make your brother a billionaire... you must first convince the key individuals go along with your program. And powerful and wealthy don't work for free. And how this works in a country like the USA is by having the state gain significant control over markets so they can use regulation and policy to benefit people who play along and punish those companies that resist. Money and power go hand in hand. You can't have big government without big corporations. You can't have big corporations without big governments. These groups are not opposing forces, the state does not balance out the 'greed' or 'excesses' of market capitalism. Instead it is the nature of the state to feed into these negative effects and exploit them. Big business and Big government are complementary. So, yes, if the purpose of the state is to exploit the wealth of the country for the purposes of the politically elite within and without the state... then it works extremely well. Not broken one bit. |
>>the purpose to the state is to carefully and thoughtfully use the resources and powers granted to it by the public to serve the public
not an accurate representation? Services are at an all-time high, while today is the best year to have been born vs. any in history.