It's not that hard at all. Investment at pace can change everything in a few decades - NHS and Social Housing in UK changed everything for ordinary workers within a decade. China took 850,000,000 people out of poverty into middle class comfort in 30 years, gave them free education, free health care, stable housing and a progression towards more ecologically sound systems of production, with ever greater democratic engagement well beyond merely voting for pop politicians.
Wealth-as-Power as a Politically dominant Class can only exist when a minority exploit a majority. This is inherently an injustice. Injustices at scale cause immense avoidable harms. These harms generate dissent. Dissent must be persuaded. These harms sometimes generate resistance. Resistance must be crushed.
If Wealth-as-Power was willing to hold itself accountable, it would have to cede a lot of Power and vastly reduce its wealth, and capacity for wealth extraction through exploitation. Clearly Wealth-as-Power is unwilling to hold itself accountable to and for Humanity, including its own humanity.
If the people, leveraging democratic legislative powers, held Wealth-as-Power accountable they would eviscerate their Power and redistribute their Wealth, rendering them as ordinary people rather than a superior elite. Because the harm caused has been so immense, a degree of punishment - detention - would be and should be involved.
That is considered the most horrific existential threat by all people who have internalised Wealth-as-Power and operate its systems.
They rejected the opportunity out of the most venal of sentiments - arrogant sense of superiority and internalised sense of entitlement to rule and dominate.
Wealth-as-Power fears that kind of solidarity because that solidarity does not need wealth-as-power, in fact it undermines wealth-as-power from the ground outwards and upwards.
Every nations people could do this IF we build that warm humane connection as our core dynamic, intellectually, legislatively, practically.
I have always held that we are smart enough to begin to develop Mutual Aid Solidarity Thrivival Evolutionarily Respectful Systems we design and maintain, learning all the time, so that we can thrive as humane beings.
Here's one set of receipts for this assertion.
(*with edits by myself in 2026)
"This is not a report simply about constitutional change. It is a report about giving people real influence, *(real political and legislative capacity, responsibility and power to deliberate and design the policies) that determines the bread and butter issues which affect our lives. *Decision making power always comes with profound responsibilities.
The disengagement from politics described in these pages cannot be dismissed as the preoccupation of the chattering classes. Its substance has come from the voices of millions of people around the country who feel quietly angry or depressed.
When it comes to politics they feel they are eating stones. Principle and ideas seem to have been replaced with managerialism, public relations *and Cognitive Warfare.
It is as though Proctor and Gamble or Abbey National or *Britain's Got Talent! and Musks *Twitter are running the country.
And in answer to this malaise, the parties seem to promote the belief that all problems will be solved by having a new face replace the one that has fallen out of favour.
*And no Andy Burnham, you are not the Messiah!
The stability, prosperity and *justness of post-industrial societies; these must be leavened with reciprocity, moral obligation, duty to the community, trust and political engagement.
People in Britain volunteer; we run in marathons for charity; we hold car boot sales to raise funds for good causes; we take part in Red Nose days and wear ribbons for breast cancer or AIDS.
We sit as school governors, we do prison visiting, we read with children who have learning difficulties. We take part in school races and run the school disco. we marched against the Iraq war, we march for Palestinian Liberation and against Colonial Genocide, and we march and in favour of the countryside.
We march to advocate against sexual violence, misogyny and Patriarchy.
We sign petitions for extra street lights and more frequent bin collection. We send their savings to the victims of tsunamis and we most certainly want to end world poverty. What we no longer want to do is join a party or get involved in formal politics when it is *corrupted by Wealth-as-Power, as it clearly is.
And increasingly we see no point in voting.
This is a travesty for democracy and as it continues the price grows ever higher.
The only way to download power is by rebalancing the system towards the people.
This is the agenda. This is the theme of The Power Inquiry."
We need the political will to achieve this, and it is not emerging from the current political class. The Community Voluntary Sector, 2 million and more active people have the will, they have the intellectual rigour, they have the emotional intelligence, they have the practice of Governance to understand and meet peoples real needs - the political class and the wealth-as-power wealth holders are getting in the way."
Read the Report, be inspired, very inspired.
https://www.jrrt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PowertothePeople_001-2006.pdf
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