What Progressives Want

I’m amused when I see people remark that the United States is a leftist nation.  Yes, we have a few anti-capitalist intellectuals, of whom Naomi Klein is probably the most visible (perhaps Noam Chomsky), but imagine how far we are from someone of this way of thinking getting anywhere near government policy-making at any level.

What American progressives want, in general, is simply regulated capitalism to prevent billionaires from destroying the environment and making serfs out of the middle class.  Give us a country whose government resembles those in most of Europe.

We’re failing miserably, but that doesn’t mean we’re not trying.