Posted by Dovetail Joint on January 19, 2023, 8:51 am, in reply to "She did anyway...."
There are a huge, deeply embedded, set of asumptions, dogmas, ideology and not least, economic 'realities', that stop the implimentation of 'radical change' in socity. That kind of change/reform cannot be pushed through by a single person alone, regardless of their qualities. That leader needs an active and mobilized constituency behind them who strike the fear of God into the Establishment, forcing them to 'give a little'.
It's tiresome and depressing to accept that democratic elections don't fundamentally alter deeply entrenched economic inequalities, without address the thorny question of the distribution of wealth and power in society, which is never going to be challenged by... 'kindness'.