RE: Hopium and Copium...

The USA likes to proclaim itself as a free market economy with a representative government serving the people by preserving their liberties, but in reality we have a morass of interventionism and authoritarianism. Scandinavia ranks higher in economic freedom in spite of their welfare state.

Real progress in America would require ending the drug war, ending foreign interventionism, ending the government subsidies to the military-infustrial complex, and replacing the Byzantine taxation and regulatory system hampering the economy. None of this is incentivized by politics.