All the "liberal" policies which were the hope of the capitalist left have turned and bitten us on the arse.....there is nothing left to fix, unless you think fucking up the social system like we did the economic one is beneficial?

Watching the UK unravel is a painful thing to watch. It has its mirror activity in the US, on many levels. What Reagan and Thatcher started, the GOP over here and whoever is in power over there seem determined to finish. The end result they seek is an uneducated large lower and middle class who will continue to be swayed by slick campaigns to vote them into office and allow them to fill their pocketbooks with the proceeds of dismantling the social welfare system and the higher profits of companies because of lower wages and no benefits.

The US passed "health care reform" but you don't notice the insurance companies being forced out of the picture - they're in it to get as much profit as possible. That's because there would have been no "reform" of any sort of the GOP stockholders couldn't keep getting richer. And why no negotiations on the prices of drugs and services for many of our government health care service providers? Because the stakeholders in Congress (or their financial backers) still want to keep earning hefty profits and they aren't as hefty if the government can force reasonable charges for essential drugs and services.

It all starts with needing an informed public heading to the polls. But the schools have been gutted by legislators dictating the curriculum and textbooks - what a viscous circle.

SRS