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>>This is the modern American disease: vested interests see to it that privateering innovation is replaced by parasites sucking greedily and resisting change: and the only valid purpose for displacement of people or technologies is to send more life blood the parasite's way.

That's often true, but not inevitable.
It's certainly been true with the health care system and it's been shamefully true with guns in the USA.
We don't use the term "leadership" very often, but getting people to try to do things against seemingly overwhelming odds requires great leadership.
For my generation, JFK embodied that idea.
Reagan was the closest we've had since then.
I had hoped that Obama would have it but that wasn't to be.
We saw some flashes of it with Bernie and I hope that we haven't heard the last of him or his followers.