[nekusar]

Not at all.

Systemic inertia is unimaginably strong.

I easily see that changing the USA to be more socialist, especially in areas where game theory indicates its the best solution, will likely take a civil war.

That also aligns with Marx's writings, that the capitalists will not acquiesce without a fight, and a big fight at that.

The slavery and Civil War connection is a comparison of similar economic magnitudes.