"You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep." - Bob Dylan
All three of my brothers who live in Madison are pretty excited about the turnout of 10,000 of their neighbors to hear Bernie Sanders' progressive message on the 1st of July. My brother, who owns "The B-Side" record store on State Street posted a picture on Facebook that he took at the rally and said, "Waking up & smelling the progressive revolution at the packed Bernie rally." They are sooo tired and suffering from what my 86 year old mother calls "Walkeritis."
She has diagnosed a tiny portion of the disease, but unfortunately, in my humble opinion (which I have gleaned by hearing from spiritual wise men and women who follow the saints and sages of the past), there is no material political cure for our maladies - that's why I've sort of dropped out of politics. I used to be the coordinator for the MoveOn Council of Greater Pittsburgh. Now I am trying to organize around spiritual solutions. I have come the the definite conclusion that that's the only hope for humanity.
I'm actually more radical than socialist U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. I adhere to the philosophy of what the great Indian saint Swami Prabhupada who came to America to spread the message of ancient Vedic wisdom calls "spiritual communism." Nothing belongs to us, or the state. Everything belongs to God. There is only one God, and He does own everything, because He created everything. If people realized that, and acted to use all His resources in His service, instead of for their own sense gratification, then there would be peace.
If not, it doesn't matter who's in control, unless it was a God conscious king like Yudhiṣṭhira, (an ancient king who ruled the earth 5000 years ago) because no non-devotee mortal can create a program that everyone can agree on.
Even if we did have such a man, Prabhupada says,
"The modern elected executive head of a state is just like a puppet because he has no kingly power. Even if he is enlightened like Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, he cannot do anything out of his own good will due to his constitutional position." - SB 1.10.3
I tell my brothers to keep dreaming, but I know that they are still asleep. They do not understand that we have to wake up to our spiritual constitutional position of servant of the whole - the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
As Dylan also says, you "Gotta Serve Somebody". We can either serve the Supreme, and He will give us the intelligence to live a peaceful life in this world and the next, or we can serve His illusory energy, and try to make material adjustments to be happy in this material world, which always ends up making things worse.
If we want to really wake up, we need to chant Hare Krishna, (or any name of God). Out of kindness He has made approach to Him easy by such chanting, and He has invested all His transcendental energies into His Holy Names, and there are no hard and fast rules for doing so. That is the recommended process for spiritual realization in this age of Kali Yuga (quarrel and hypocrisy), and read the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, as recommended by Swami Prabhupada, who brought it's timeless message to the western world.
"Human society, at the present moment, is not in the darkness of oblivion. It has made rapid progress in the field of material comforts, education and economic development throughout the entire world. But there is a pinprick somewhere in the social body at large, and therefore there are large-scale quarrels, even over less important issues. There is need of a clue as to how humanity can become one in peace, friendship and prosperity with a common cause. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam will fill this need, for it is a cultural presentation for the respiritualization of the entire human society." - Srimad Bhagavatam, Preface