"The way our economy works is bad" "That's how it's been since forever, it's an essential part of country X" "Yes, and it's a badly designed part". "But now

"The way our economy works is bad" "That's how it's been since forever, it's an essential part of country X" "Yes, and it's a badly designed part". "But now you are no longer talking about the way country X works, but the way you want country X to work - and that has nothing to do with country X." See how the argument quickly degenerates?