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- Resistance to a single-payer health care system. I think this would immediately deliver financial results both for American corporations (who are saddled with HC costs that make them less competitive against other nations' companies) and it would hold health care costs down (as it does in France and Australia). It's been said that the USA doesn't have a balanced budget issue, we have a health care issue. If you look at the numbers, you realize that so much of the American debt problem and our government spending is directed at medical care. Control that and suddenly things look a lot better.
- Looking backwards & American Exceptionalism. Before World War II, the USA was a forward looking nation. We didn't have too much "greatness" in history to brag about. We didn't exactly "save the world" in World War I. We were simply a forward looking "new" nation who was obsessed with meritocratic entrepreneurialism. Since the end of World War II, the USA has been fixated on our "innate greatness and exceptionalism" and it's hurting us. The "our way or no way" mentality is garbage. If our greatest days are ahead of us, then we should stop obsessing over the greatness that's happened before us as if it made us better than others.
- Fear of good government. A good government doesn't manage people's lives, it manages massive events and entities. The net effect is -- that at times -- lives do get managed. A great example is our fear of allow the government to control commercial adverts that push junk food (especially on kids). "It's social engineering" and "It's the nanny state!". No it's not. It's respecting that EVERYBODY even companies have to take their hands off the American people and the American family. Our government's job is to protect Americans from all enemies, foreign and domestic. We have a slow rot in this country because ever increasingly, companies are encroaching into our lives and into our foods. "We the people" band together to get things done in an organization called "Government". It's job is to act on our behalf to protect our interests. It is IN our interest to control the destructive nature of some short-sighted and selfish companies from harming the American people. We're so focused on government tyranny that we've ignored the growing corporate tyranny on our doorstep.
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