Obama believed and still believes the system is sick and must be repaired. He’s an institutionalist balls to bones. It’s almost a religious faith to institutionalists.

The reality is the system is working exactly as intended, especially after the Reaganomics/Jack Welch upgrade made it immune to even tangentially possible repair half a century ago, and will either have to be destroyed through revolution, or more likely as we’re propagandized from birth to defend our own subjugation, collapse under the weight of its own self-created crises before circumstances can improve here.

Modern Americans have been clear, the supply chain of their subsistence opiates (social media/fast food/literal opiates/etc) are far more important than a decent future for their children, so we or whichever generation draws the short straw will have to learn the hard way as we limp along running this system designed to elevate a few off the suffering and exploitation of the many deluded into working against their own interests.