The Allies "fixed" Germany. Hitler took all of your guns and all we wanted was a population that was peaceful enough that we wouldn't have to worry about anothe

The Allies "fixed" Germany. Hitler took all of your guns and all we wanted was a population that was peaceful enough that we wouldn't have to worry about another ground war in Europe -- at least for a long while. It seemed to have worked out. The mess in education and healthcare in the U.S. is mostly due to different partial solutions being applied by different actors at different times, and at different political levels. Each solution kinda sounded good -- but had flaws. And the feedback loop was glacial. This is quite different than having one party mostly in charge of everything for decades at a time. One wag said the U.S. doesn't have a healthcare system; it has four healthcare systems. (Each with different rules, goals, managers, and so forth, and each acting somewhat at odds with the other) The education mess, which is just as horrible in my mind if not worse, is a bit simpler. If I had to reduce it all to a blurb, I'd say "One side wanted higher education for all no matter what", "One side didn't care about that, but wanted people who lend money to students to be assured of getting paid back no matter what". Each side had a really good point. I will not debate those here. But combined, we ended up in the worst of both worlds.