Obama said he didn't have much power. That is why he did so little to tax the richest and regulate financial capital. That claim is now rapidly being undermined by Trump with all his executive orders in a short period of time. Trump's commands show how much power the US president really has. The mistake of Obama, the Democrats and the rest of the world's democratic left has been to listen too much to middle officials who wanted to defend their privileged position. When class differences do not decrease, when jobs become fewer, harder and social security and benefits decrease, then we risk getting right-wing populist leaders like Trump, the Sweden Democrats and Marine Le Pen. These divert the discontent of low-income earners away from the power that took their money and instead direct the discontent towards even more vulnerable groups.
All the social democrats of the world must return to truly taming capitalism and making it the servant of the majority again.
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However, I believe that education must also pay off, but just as we must tame capitalism to serve the people, so we must tame the civil servants to serve the people.
A society hostile to education easily leads to Cambodia where even those with glasses were executed as citizens.
However, the differences between worker wages and white-collar wages should not be large. Without civil servants with longer training, we would not have today's labor-saving machines. When you don't have it, power tends to be more brutal towards the people. But we don't just want machines, do we also want schools, care, welfare, power-critical mass media and culture?
But workers need to have a say in important questions about how we build politics and the economy. Economists have been allowed to exalt themselves behind difficult-to-understand mathematical formulas that explain, without the public understanding, why we should have a lack of jobs and instead poor working conditions and wages, low and difficult-to-access social insurance and benefits.
The workers and officials govern the country best in cooperation. Rarely does one person or group always have the right answer. The right answer tends to jump between all different people and groups maybe so we should understand that everyone is needed.