Point well taken, but I’d say getting the US Congress to agree to things that inconvenience the rich might be an exception. I really wish we could get the ball rolling on that in a self-sustaining, self-amplifying way that compounded to larger and larger changes and more and more public support. But that just isn’t how my government has worked in my lifetime in my experience.
Political capital is more like muscle than a one-shot battery: it gets stronger when you use it in ways that have public support.
Point well taken, but I’d say getting the US Congress to agree to things that inconvenience the rich might be an exception. I really wish we could get the ball rolling on that in a self-sustaining, self-amplifying way that compounded to larger and larger changes and more and more public support. But that just isn’t how my government has worked in my lifetime in my experience.