The new deal did work amazingly well. After the war the US working class acheived the highest standard of living ever in history hands down, even a minimum wage job paid for a dignified life, for a family.

You can’t go by inflation adjusted numbers as they’ve changed the inflation calculations to understate them, 5-8% average from the 70s to 2008 under the unchanged metric 2-3% under the new ones they tweaked multiple times to get lower numbers. Compound fuckery that has been a pay cut every year by default, the difference going to the investor/owner class.

Whatever failings still existed, the new deal showed that organized labor, and a more honest government working for voters not donors, can deliver.

I disagree, I believe not only that we can seize control of the system and restore the glory of the postwar years, but that trying to burn down the old system and put in a new one will end in tragedy, that we are in NO position to do such a thing, that powerful interests would hijack the doing of such a thing and make everything worse, and so forth.

The constitution is good, it’s a solid base, the problem is it’s not being followed. Since before we were born, the interstate commerce clause and the 10th amendment were flouted to the point of ridiculity. The feds are not supposed to have this power, they regulate interstate commercy, while being forbidden from putting barriers to trade between states or restricting movement of people. Everything not explicitly delegated to them by the constitution is reserved for the states per the 10th.

They fucked this centuries ago, and we would be better off restoring the government to the constitution, than trying to make a new one. The Bill of rights, and the amendments, are solid. The system could use some new amendments, maybe redoing presidential electors. But it would lose importance if we brought the executive branch, and the federal government as a whole, back to the bounds of the constitution, where it’s not involved in almost all of the shit it’s involved in.

States might suck, but you can move to one that doesn’t. It’s not a bad system, the best we could hope for, and better than anything that would result from replacing it.

Which is not to say we don’t raze and burn the oligarchy, they are in violation of our laws, and obviously we lay them to waste, that’s the only way we restore the constitution. Purge institutions, new leadership everywhere from business to government. And putting the rich on a leash, and taking ill gotten gains back from them, if not, more final remedies to their fuckery.