Unfortunately that’s a rather idealised view of the way American politics work. In reality, we already know from long experience that American politico-capitalism runs towards exploitation and greed when left to its own devices, as we saw with the monopolies, the robber barons, the horrific exploitation of immigrant labor as seen in the meatpacking industry and mining fields, etc, etc.

Yes, I do hear what you’re saying, but reality is reality. However the system was ‘supposed’ to work as an ideal, in fact it left us in a horrible situation, one in which the primary difference makers were ourselves. Let’s also not forget that if the system is ‘rigged’ the way it is, and we carelessly buy in to it ourselves as consumers, then not only are we failing to hold politicians accountable, but we’re also the ones cooperating in feeding the impending catastrophe of unsustainability… across a range of issues stacked on top of CC.

There’s also the fact that with America endorsing a pro-big business / wealthy scoundrel such as Nixon, leading to an even worse scoundrel in Reagan, and then failing to recognise the wheels in motion resultant from all that in the 50+yrs since, why then, there’s another way the body of American people have essentially failed to make a critical difference.