If you do what you've always done....

I'm thinking about the state of our Union, and how things could change, and I'm wondering what the effect would be to take a completely understated approach to the things we've always been gung-ho and ho-rah about. What if we did as the Japanese did after WWII and adopt a pacifist outlook, putting all our military personnel on reserves indefinitely and using the military budget only for technological advancement. What if we stopped being so goddamned greedy and tried to establish a little economic equality for the people of our country, and the world. What if, instead of trying to make an extra buck by off-shoring, we try to create jobs in the US for our fellow citizens, and I don't know, maybe try to get some economic stability instead of pretending there's still money to blow? What if we exiled all the crooked politicians and amend the constitution to include a process by which we can depose government officials when they're becoming too corrupt? Maybe then we could get some policies in place to actually make a difference for our earth's well-being, like switching to CNG, regulating car use, finding alternative packaging to lessen what goes to the landfills... Will this make any difference? I don't know. I'm not that well-informed on the cause and effect of each of these actions. So many of the issues surrounding our national and global well-being are multi-faceted and complex, and I don't really know how to trace all of them; but the saying "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got" is true. Something's gotta give.