The US does not have a problem of faith because faith is irrelevant. The real problem of the US, and Canada and others is responsibility.
I explain in this system of government the people vote but have no real responsibility for anything that happens in the country in terms of immigrstion, involvement in wars, quality of education, health care, national debt, budgets, etc. All that executive and legislarive authority is in the hands of the people voters elect because the tge constitutions and basic federal, state and local laws so dictate. They dictate that all that power wiill be in the hands of the elected politicians and that the people will have no direct power to control executive decisions and laws. Under the US Constitition all the people can do is vote for a different politician or party. Of course that change of people in power does not change the fact that the voters continue powerless.
If to that bad situation you add that the Constitution and the interpretation that the Supreme Court has done of it, allows unlimited private money in electoral campsigns and primaries, you have a situation in which big money dominates elections and dominates both parties because without big money ( or unless you are wealthy, which amounts to the same) it is impossible to mount a campaign with impact; you will not have the resources to reach voters.
This means the vast majority of politicians in the US at the federal, state, big and small city level are controlled by big money, by rich individuals, big corporations and big lobbies.
Logically, the politicians have to serve those who made it possible for them to mount a successful electoral campaign, but even if rhey lost, winners and losers are controlled by big money; Kamala Harris campaign was controlled by big money as (the facts now prove) was Trump’s campaign.
How are American politicians going to tackle the issues concerning 90% of Americans if the 10% rich Americans and their corporation control politicians with election money? It is irrational to expect that.
Political campaigns in the US are refined exercises in fooling the people with fake or irrelevant promises that do not hurt the interests of big corporations and big lobbies.
But there is more, while big money might have different political issues and some might “donate” more to Republicans than to Democrats, or viceversa, all big money has realized it is smart to “donate” to candidates of both parties as a sort of insurance.
Give the above and the need to win votes, it is impossible for any President, any Congress, any Governor or state legislature, any city government to put in place policies and laws to help ordinary Americans and American for the long and short term, other than actions to “buy” votes.
Because pokiticians have the power they use it to help themselves by helping the lobbies.
This is not flaws in the ethics of politicians or the lobbies, the flaw lies in the US Constitution that gives all executive and legislative power to politicians.
What the US needs to do is massively transfer power from politicians to the voters.
Fortunately we know how that can be done and the results are spectacular.
The people of Switzetland in the early 1800s drafted their constitition and used as model the US Constitution and it also influenced ther cantonal (state) constitutions.
Sonn the Swisd realized piliticians had too much power. The protests started in Zurich, the politicians and the Swiss eltes did not want to transfer power to the people using the usual phony arguments of: ” the people are not informed”, “decisions will take too long”, “the people might fall for a demagogue” (as if most politicians were not demagogues), etc.
But the people insisted: ” we must have the power to veto any law or policy, and not even Supreme Court will be able to prevail over us, the people”.
The peopke insisted and fearing violence, the politicians relented.
From Zurich it spread to all cantons and to the federal constitution and city laws.
It has been a success by any measure. What the Swiss found is that the transfer of power to the voters also transferred to them the responsibility for the fate of city, csnton and country. In the Swiss system, voters can not blame politicians because voters can stop, and do stop, any law or decision the majority of the voters in the citu, the canton or the nation disagree with.
Swiss voters can do many more things.
In short what rhe US needs to do to fix itsel is for ordinary common sense Republican and Democrat voters, and independents who together constitute the 90% of Americans, to relentlessly but peacefully, take to streets unli the politicians of both parties relent and bring to the US the “Swiss amendment” to the American Constitution.
Only ordinary Americans can fix the country, the 10% at the top are not interested because they will lose power and money, even if they know that the Swiss system wikk bring to the US the rock solid stability, free of demagogues, which creates the best long term environment for their money, as the Swiss rich and foreign rich residents enjoy in Switzerland. The US can become a giant Switzerland, a real democracy where ordinary citizens vote AND decide issues and laws as truly first class citizens.
Do all you cam to bring the Swiss system and stop the slide into Weimar 2.0 towards which both parties and the rich are pushing America.
