@sashin @Em0nM4stodonEm
many would argue that government has been hollowed out by business/wealth. every politician has rich donors making a buck on the back end

Adam Smith said that state and business are in a boxing match and one steps out of line the other smacks them, but I don't even recall the last time state threw anything close to a punch

the only time we've had epic social progress its been due to pressure from the outside - the civil rights movement, forcing politicians into a corner

perhaps, as Sashin says, forcing the ruling into a corner

its really them state cares about - and the compromises from past battles are the things we took for granted growing up

but if people that came before us managed to push the ruling class into a corner then it can be done again - don't get defeatist