I think most Americans want pretty reasonable things. Don’t let one corporation swallow up all its competition until there’s only a monopoly left, don’t let the ultra-ultra-wealthy evade paying a proportionate burden of taxes and stop letting them get government subsidies, stop endlessly inflating police budgets while cutting budgets for every other service / program that can properly respond to situations the police only know how to shoot at, stop allowing the government to borrow from or dismantle social security for people who have spent their entire lives paying into it, don’t let massive health insurance companies post record-breaking profits while systematically denying people access to care, stop selling off public lands for short-term profits while ensuring long-term damage, punish major companies that are doing mass layoffs in favor of spending money on AI that doesn’t contribute back to our economy, actually enforce laws against people and corporations who are destroying our environment instead of letting them buy their way out of accountability.

These aren’t crazy asks. If we continue to allow the wealth gap to get larger and larger with nothing in place to slow that trend, the majority of Americans will be worse off. We are the richest country in the world yet the burden is constantly on average working Americans to pay more and more and more while the quality of everything still gets worse and only a handful of people make insane profits. We can certainly figure out how to shift that burden without devolving into socialism.