Could it be our leaders can't think "big" enough to move us onward? Reaction to Michael Moore

[NRaleighLiberal]

I don't have this all worked out, but after watching some clips from Michael Moore's appearances on The View (GAG...was in a doctors office and it was on the teevee) and Bill Maher, and TYT, it struck me that for the most part, much of this talk of change to our economic (indeed, perhaps our health as well) system is window dressing, because we've lost the ability as a nation to think big and wide enough to come up with new and better ways to do things in terms of true paradigm shifts. I came to this when watching all three say things like "Moore overreached. He is making Capitalism a bad thing, says it is a root cause of our problems, and it isn't. Capitalism is fine as long as we have regulations in place" blah blah blah. Then they say "people are inherently greedy - it is just the way it is" - which to me is a way of just giving up and admitting that we are hard-wire, incapable of the needed change.

My daughter spent two years in the Peace Corps in Madagascar (one of the world's poorest countries) - she is there now working on her non-profit organization. She is working toward her graduate degree in sustainable business, and she and I have had many a chat on how we both think that Capitalism is indeed a root cause of this problem. But we (as a country - most of the people and leadership) are incapable of the next paradigm shift because, for the most part, we like where we are. Or at least don't realize that we don't like it, or that there can be something better.

So I have to heartily agree with Michael Moore - even not having seen his movie yet, just some brief discussions of it where he discusses some of his key learnings and points. I think there must be something better than this tainted, corrupt, top heavy system that we have in place that concentrate so much wealth in so few, and leave so many behind.

I wonder where Obama truly sits on this topic. I think it in itself is a root cause that impacts the Health Care debate. And the Global Warming Debate. And our conflicts that we choose to (or find ourselves) involved in.

For whatever reason, we've become intellectually lazy - that combined with greed makes me very skeptical that we can ever move beyond window dressing change, and are in a prolonged period of world wide mediocrity (or worse) unless or until something unimaginably catastrophic wakes us, as human beings, up.

[babylonsister]

1. Maybe something needs to be done, or rephrased, or changed.

I fear the r/w. They're already howling about 'socialism'. How does any politician makes any changes, even of a name, without the other side going bat-shit crazy?

I appreciate Moore for pointing out what is wrong with our current system, but I don't know if he addresses how to change it for the better.