Philosophical Productive Discussion

[benji]

I'll continue the pile on first with some empirical issues:

They took over the Department of Education with someone hostile to education who is the wife of a Mercenary army. It might as well have been destroyed. As it is, being a teacher is an incredibly low paying job on purpose.

Education funding in this country has more than doubled, in real dollars, since 1980. Tertiary education is probably even bigger. Teacher pay is tied to a mandatory seniority schedule with an unfunded benefit scheme.

Yes, it is. Among the top ten developed nations, America's healthcare system is A) unique and B) dead last in terms of rankings, and has been for ten years running. It is not unreasonable to not want that anymore.

Single-payer healthcare is not the norm anywhere you will want to look to. Even Canada was forced to allow a private market rather than continue to politically restrict supply. And I think like the above the explosion of government spending and control should lead you to question your premises about the likely benefits of further monopolizing the sector with a single corporation.

Onto the more philosophical one:

I already did. At least two opposing groups operating on the good faith assumption that they both want what's best for all citizens and to have the best government possible governing them. America does not have this.

I think this is a very utopian vision of not just democracy but politics itself. The nature of politics, especially in a state that is increasingly seizing more of the means of production, is not a dialectic towards identifying a general will. Many positions are simply irreconcilable. Your and Joanne's best government possible may be a 100% tax rate to fund the trans genocide, but this is irreconcilable with my best government possible that does not engage in genocide nor tax anyone. It is not bad faith to believe others intended mandatory policies are not just unwise but potentially dangerous.

It gets even worse when corpos and governments work in tandem to prevent new players gaining a foothold

Like current residents wanting to deliberately limit the supply of potential legal workers?