There's a quote attributed to Winston Churchill [1]: > As King put it: "Winston Churchill once famously observed that Americans will always do the right thing,

There's a quote attributed to Winston Churchill [1]: > As King put it: "Winston Churchill once famously observed that Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else." In my experience, America does tend to have this blind spot where everything but the blindingly obvious is blamed and we throw our hands up saying "there's nothing we can do" for problems literally no one else has. The problem here is capitalism. We need more government, not less. The Church of Quasi-libertarianism and deregulation simply does not work. Shelter is one of our basic needs to survive. There is absolutely no reason why the richest nation in the history of the Earth cannot put a roof over the head, provide sufficient food and give access to clean water to every man, woman and child in this country. None. It's a choice not to. The insidious part of our capitalistic cult is how insidious it is. Every aspect of our lives becomes financialized. Debt is built into our existence: housing, student, medical. It's the chosen method of control where once it was fealty to a monarch and whoever your local vassal lord was. Mark Fisher once said [2]: > it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism But no, the problem is going to be anything else. [1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/10/28/241295755/a-churchill-quote-that-u-s-politicians-will-never-surrender https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/10/28/24129... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism