What? Reducing the influence of wealth in a country is not the same as 1) having the state own all property or 2) a state ran for workers

There are numerous ways to reduce that influence without flipping the entirety of our capitalist economic system.

We seem to be trying them without much luck. To be honest I don't really care where the ceiling is, as long as the floor is reasonable.

As far as our success is concerned, I am aligned entirely with you. I think radical change is necessary to slow down the self-destructive capitalist machine that is the U.S.

Unfortunately so many people have been influenced by McCarthyian propaganda that whenever the topic of social and economic reform in the U.S. comes up they simply scream about Stalin and Mao and that is that.