"We as a society" don't really decide on anything. The power to make laws and the power required to enforce them rest in the hands of a select few wealthy peopl

"We as a society" don't really decide on anything. The power to make laws and the power required to enforce them rest in the hands of a select few wealthy people who stand to lose money from the dissolution of manufactured scarcity and precarity. Policies like universal healthcare are viewed favourably by the American public especially when presented without the dressing of red scare but something like that (which many developed countries have to varying extent) does not even come close to being considered in the House and Senate because it would make Wall Street very uncomfortable.