Over my life, I have read a lot of different political philosophies, and I find most of them to be at least more to the point than this mess we have managed to end up with.
Our system is wrong on almost every count.
Supposedly, we live in a free country, but the freedom appears to be limited simply to screwing other people for money.
I read Marx, and I read Hegel, too (the guy Marx didn't quite read well enough). I started out reading Milton Friedman, who has some very good points, and I have read the Libertarian party's annointed ones, Ayn Rand and Mary Ruwart. All of them have good points, all of them miss the mark.
Some are so dogmatic that it seems stupid to even consider critiqueing them.
When I was a psychology student in college, I had a friend who went to hear the noted behavioral psychologist, Dr. B.F. Skinner, speak.
He asked him, "Dr. Skinner, did your consciousness have any influence on the composition of your recent book?"
Dr. Skinner thought for more than a moment, and eventually replied, "No."
At least he took the time to reflect on the corner he had painted himself into. That is more than I can say for some of the 'noted authorities' I have read.
Anyway, this grew from a simple look into the Single-Payer approach into a group of suggestions on how to resolve various failures in our system of government in general. Sometimes, it just doesn't pay to try to discuss the issues. I am just going to say my piece and let it stand on its own.
Of course, most people will have issues relating to at least some of the suggestions. My response to those reactions is that you search your own assumptions about your expectations as I have, and see if this dissatisfaction relates more to your expectations rather than my suggestions.
My area of expertise is in systems analysis and troubleshooting. In all of these situations, I have applied those methods to the systems in question. In all of these, I have found failures of expectation which are compounded by failures of design. All of these suggestions are designed to resolve the underlying problems, as treating symptoms cures nothing.
Henry David Thoreau