| MDMAlliance said: I'll admit, this was my fault for making the misunderstanding to begin with and asserting it before actually realizing the problem. |
No problem. I did try to point it out the first time, then I got increasingly frustrated after that and that's why I got more aggressive.
Now that we seem to be on the same page (more subtle disagreements aside), I'm happy to leave things as they are. If there's something you feel I should elaborate on, I'd be happy to do so.
On a side point, you mention that you were arguing from the standpoint of the United States. Being Australian, I don't really associate as well with US politics (although I find it fascinating). The US is a particularly tough nut to crack, in terms of these sorts of things, in part because of the deep Democrat/Republican division (and the increasing insanity of the median Republican politician makes it an even bigger challenge). Australian politics isn't great, but it's a lot more malleable and fuzzy, so making these sorts of changes wouldn't be quite so difficult. It is, I think, a partial explanation for why economic mobility is higher in Australia than the US.
I don't deny that implementing my (mostly unexplained here) ideas would be quite a challenge in any country, but I do think that it's achievable, at least in terms of concept (the real challenge would be finding someone who could go about implementing it, since I'm no public speaker or politician).
