The average American has been placed in a very precarious situation: you're being purposely kept on the edge of poverty in order to further a system which vastly prefers the top 5-10% of people who fundamentally employ them. Healthcare is still tied to employment, and 65% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck, by design. Even the French, under a gov't infamous for its widespread and blatant corruption, are given the option to protest this oligarchy under an (admittedly very flawed) more socialist system. The U.S. dollar is the global reserve currency, and the U.S. gov't has done absolutely nothing in the past few decades to combat massive monopolies and corporate cartels.
This week, we were made aware of the blatant corruption of Clarence Thomas, a longtime Supreme Court Justice – one of the most respected positions in the world – and the primary argument against abhorrence for this discovery is that “all American politicians are bought and paid for.” This is presented as if it is a reality of the world, and nothing can be done about it.
We live in an era where greed and greed alone has allowed the monopolistic corporations that control American society to create a de facto cartel of greed-fueled inflation in service of enabling record profits for monopolistic corporations while wages for 90% of the population fall, creating an artificial “inflation” driven by pure monopolistic greed – greedflation.
Antitrust and socialist Americans have always relied on the Democrat party as their bipartisan representative (the U.S. electoral system essentially mandates subscription to Democrats or Republicans to have your vote heard), and Democrat President Joe Biden enjoyed a Democrat majority in the Senate for his first two years, and has since decided to adopt blatantly anti-worker and anti-consumer practices – such as Biden's approval of preventing railway unionization – that are blatantly and completely antithetical to the principles of his own voters.
The United States is, fundamentally, a Democratic nation, and it feels as if we are on the precipice, currently, of allowing our democracy to fully and irreversibly convert to an oligarchy within the decade. As a pro-capitalist who has resented my own time living in more socialist nations, such as France and Australia, people like Bernie Sanders, who are explicit anti-oligarchs, do run for office and are voted down.
As a pro-capitalist, economically conservative political enthusiast who has lived decades in socialist nations before coming to the US, Americans are at a precipice where you need to act now in order to prevent an official and unstoppable oligarchy in the world's most powerful nation.
What can be done to realistically solve the remarkable wealth inequality and corruption that the US has become known for? I know we're not doomed yet, but political doom is certainly on the horizon, speaking as an anti-doomer who has traditionally ridiculed “deep state” political conspiracists.