GnosticBishop wrote:
Who is the King of the U.S.A.?
Oh say can you see, --- that you are an oligarchy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-14SllPPLxYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzQYA9Qjsi0I assume here that most Americans are bright enough to know that they live in an oligarchy and not a democracy.
Do you believe that redistribution of wealth from the top to the bottom of the U.S. socio economic demographic pyramid is a good idea or a bad idea?
Do you think the American oligarchy can be turned back into a real democracy where the poor are considered instead of ignored, if not abused?
Poverty is the worst form of Violence. Mahatma Gandhi
Do you think that we can persuade our owners to stop their violence against the poor?
Which of our oligarchs would you say is the King of the U.S.A.
Should the U.S. government find its balls and ask its King to stop abusing the poor?
Regards
DL
1. Republics are all oligarchies, and the USA is a Republic, albeit technically a Constitutional Republic, meaning the oligarchs themselves are elected & considered 'representatives' rather than 'rulers'.
2. The USA has no King, being a Constitutional Republic & not a Monarchy of any type.
3. In terms of oligarchies, which seem to still be in fashion in terms of governmental systems in highly developed countries these days, Parliamentary systems tend to do a better job than Constitutional Republics at actually representing the will of the people because they have multi-party coalition governments which can be dissolved & reformed if necessary at any point by their chosen leader & leaders who can be removed by a vote of no confidence by the government at any point, making them far more flexible & responsive to wishes of their people, in general.
So to answer your questions:
We have no King.
Continued upwards wealth redistribution is obviously unsustainable & therefore a bad thing.
We were never a democracy, and the broad economic uplift of the 1950s was not shared equally by all groups & was largely the result of broadly socialist policies including a top marginal tax rate of 90%, free higher education through the GI Bill, and massive government spending on public works, industry, and infrastructure. Therefore there is nothing to 'return' to, per se. What we should be doing is scrapping our flawed system & moving to either a Parliamentary or Direct Democracy type system.
Personally, I favor a Direct Democracy type system where the people propose, write, debate, and vote on legislation.
However, I realize that such a system is considered relatively radical & unproven.
So I would be okay with a switch to a Parliamentary system with binding referendums on national ballots.