And that's the most significant problem we face in politics today. Nobody, liberal or conservative or anything in between should be content with this. Yet very few people and even fewer politicians are talking about it. The apathy of Americans on this issue disgusts me.
The problem with political solutions is they are often only solutions for people of a given mindset and impediments to people that do not hold that same mindset.
The idea that thru involuntary interactions a one size fits all political edict will ensure fairness is oxymoronic. Why? The element of involuntaryism and the inclusion of systemic coercion from the get go, make it self evident.
Political solutions (now there's an oxymoron) which arise from a coercion based system will usually leave somebody in a worse circumstance than they would have been with no intrusion at all.
The question that should be addressed isn't how to make a faulty system work, but which alternatives to that faulty system might bring more equitable living circumstances to individual people. This question rarely is understood, considered or asked, hence the present paradigm and the continued turd polishing in hopes the turd will magically metamorphisize (sic) into a shining jewel. Good luck pressing excrement into a diamond.