> But there are a lot of them and they all have the vote, waiting to be pushed as useful idiots to some higher goal. Politicians have started to realize that they don’t actually need to get a real mandate, and that they won’t be held accountable for lying. At that level, every time someone lies more people become susceptible to being pulled in to this web of deception.
One viable thing to do is redistribute political power instead of wealth.
The act of trying to centralize everything into a legacy, monolithic, waterfall, big iron system results in a Tower of Babel.
Its proponents swear it's Progress.
Return to the enumerated powers on the Constitution, and refactor all this Progressive cruft to the State level, where voters can either be wise or spendthrift at their leisure.
Doubtless we'll prefer a more catastrophic collapse, but dreaming is still occasionally legal.