All I can say to that is … great minds:
And – much the same as it’s ridiculously easy to enter into a war, and unimaginably difficult to get out of one – it’s easier to give people stuff than it is to take stuff from them.
Meaning: pulling back from this one – which could ameliorate misery and reduce the wealth gap – almost surely cannot be done without a rather enormous amount of pain.
And – much like getting the money out of politics – those who benefit so richly from the system basically also control it.