It'll never happen.
It takes politicians to do it.
It opens up what I call the "Politician Dilemma": Something that should be done for the greater good, but either your political enemies or powerful "good ole' boy forces,"
or big mouthed lobbyists shut it down EVERY time. So it becomes basically just about scientifically impossible.
For example: Comprehensive prison reform. (Which ties into the drug war.)
A politician think, "Hmm, we should lessen our massive prison population by reforming the prison system."
Then, his enemies declare he's SOFT ON CRIME!!! He wants to let CRIMINALS and DRUG DEALERS and MURDERERS and PEDOPHILES out on the street, to attack YOUR families!! YOUR!!!!
families!!!!!! OH THE HUMANITY!!!! Then they make commercials where the criminals break into some innocent families home and rape/murder everyone to death.
Then, the private prisons and anyone making gobs of money off of inmates, and that is a vast, intricate system, join in the attack, or lobby the politician to death until he changes his mind.
Politicians wanting prison reforms loses in a landslide if he stays the course, and every other politician gets the hint real fast.
It's why prisons will either never reform, or reform so slowly, you'll barely notice.
It's why drugs will never be legalized, or be such a long, slow, process, you'll never see it in your lifetime, and the changes can be quickly reversed to the current status quo.
It's why Social Security will NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR be reformed, ever, ever ever. Social Security will go away when zombies are walking around eating everybody, or
right after the asteroids wipes out all life on Earth.
It's why we'll never have a "Flat tax" or "Fair Tax."
These are issues that people will talk about, write books about, discuss and argue online and hashtag to death and make the MOST EXCELLENT points that can be totally right.......anndddddd it'll never happen.
Like abolishing the IRS and making Congress take minimum wage salaries. Literally never going to happen.
MAYBE (and boy do I mean MAYBE!) some Supreme Court decision may prove me wrong, but I doubt it.
Yes, it'd save the country millions in tax dollars, people have a right to injest what they please as long as they don't bother anyone else, yada yada. Those are all correct points.
And the politicians aren't listening and don't care.
The "Ole' Biddy Vote" is far too powerful.