Reposting my answer to the commenter linked here.<p>Your answer is true, but stupid.<p>If by "our country" we're talking about the United States, the answers and solutions are <i>bloody trivial</i>. Many of America's past public policies work better than its current ones; many public policies of America's peers work better than any of those ever implemented in America. When the entire rest of the world has spent a century exploring the solution-space, poaching the best of all systems and implementing it all together in a lean, mean hybrid is not that difficult a plan to come up with. And no, I'm not talking about a wondrous anarchist utopia, I'm talking about tested, proven ways of doing things better than the USA currently does them. Maybe Paradise isn't around the corner, but we've a lot of experience at building a society so self-satisfied and easy to live in that people start contemplating their existential angst.<p>The deeper problem is that most of the American elite is now composed of people with a vested financial and ideological interest in our current system, mostly loosely referred to as neoliberalism, which has been continually making things worse.<p>So the hard problem is not what you do once you've won power, because we already know how to run a <i>good</i> society, even if <i>great</i> ones may be very difficult. The hard problem is how you get the people dedicated to ruling over a wasteland to relinquish the steering wheel.