Easy: Almost every developed country except ours has a different set of priorities.

Like you say, we need a economy that works for us, not the other way around. People really believe trickle down works.

Because we have two corporate parties which do the least, and corporate media which excuses it.

I just don't understand either....it can be done yet why hasn't it?

One of the most threatening things for the ruling class is to allow the classes seen as beneath them to be well educated, so they make it unaccessible. If the masses are dumb and preoccupied with survival they're less likely to get any ideas about changing society for the better.

Capitalism

Propaganda

Because Americans are also some of the least informed in the world on what’s happening beyond their own borders.

It's because Americans have to show that they don't need help and can do it all themselves. Ingrained in the DNA almost, the cost so high and yet the thought of socialised care is frightening. We need community, we need each other...