Want to fix it? Make the people with the most ability to affect social change fix it. And you do that by making them have skin in the game. Right now their only incentive is to get rid of the public system because they can afford to not use it.

The PC term is African American money.

Pretty much. The problem with American politics is there's too many fringe nutters on both sides who think compromise is a bad thing. If we had more middle of the road voters(especially in the primaries) our country would be in a much better place.