Reply #22: I'm still kicking around what could be done

[Selatius]

Frankly, I haven't yet formulated what I think is the best answer, but whether we can avert another Great Depression-style catastrophe is an issue that is already too late to address or an issue that will be answered in the next couple of years. After that, there will be no turning back on the economic front. I would write this arena off as a loss fairly shortly if we don't turn around and move in the opposite direction like the world's about to end.

On the political front, however, modest proposals such as trying to do to the Democratic Party what the radical right did with the Republicans to radical proposals such as attempting to call a new constitutional convention to ratify an improved constitution (the Venezuelan approach) are all "on the table." A more traditional method would be to get people out on the streets 1960s-style, but that would require a strong campaign to counter-act the disinformation being carried by the corporate news outlets and would require something that could cut through citizen apathy and a feeling of isolation and that cynical feeling of "nobody listens to us," which, unfortunately, has a lot of basis in fact. I'm still contemplating the merits and drawbacks of several courses of action. With the first two I mentioned, the former would probably take decades to do, while the latter could be called in a shorter length of time, but both would require effort. The only question is time, and it's running out on the economic question.