Your belief that one man, “the president” (or any one person) can do something that big is in itself part of the problem. Your democracy is flawed so you need to fix that first instead of thinking you need some superman that will just “do something”.
It’s like bulldozing a house and then ask what the bulldozer can do to “fix things”.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m actually with you - I don’t believe any one president can just wave a magic wand and do away with regulatory capture forever. I’m not sure what I said specifically that made you think I put that all on the president.
However it is still a very relevant question, which no one seems to want to answer: what CAN the next president DO to restore trust? Not necessarily restore it ALL but begin to heal the situation?
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Well, for anyone curious about history, the answer is “very little” because it does no longer depend on the president, but on the whole country. Or so I see it.
And it becomes fairyland quickly because so many things that would have to happen are not going to happen without the whole country stepping up and behind a new power.
That’s why the American president in this manner is quite worthless. But to answer your question, the thing s/he could do would be just that, unify the country behind a morally good idea. Anything else just won’t change what we think about the usa for the better.
So, unify the country behind a new democratic system. Then give it a decade or two!