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It's never worked in the past. When it gets to this point it's the end of the country at we know it.
Redistributing mansions and boats won't fix the homeless program either.
All or nothing thinking results in self-sabotage before an attempt is made. There’s no single “do this, solve a housing crisis” magic button, even a well laid plan is going to run into unforeseen problems.
Yeah, abolishing the vestiges of the monarchy would be the end of the country as you’ve known it. But it’s not like England is a monolith that’s been the same thing for centuries. The country people lived in after WW2 was not the country they lived in before WW2. Same for the post Victorian era, same for when they lost the colonies, same for when the Magna Carta was written, same for when William conquered. Societies change. We’ve got similar problems in the States. We’re not the country we were when the Constitution was first written, nor the country that split over slavery, nor the industrial titan of WW2 and the post war boom, nor the wealth gap growth of the Regan era. Were the inheritors of those legacies but we can either do nothing and let the conservatives hold us back, or worse, let the regressives cherry pick the worst moments in history and try to recreate them, or push for progress even at the expense of disrupting what is comfortably familiar and tolerable.