What some believe Americans want or will accept is still odds with the reality. The actual problem in this country is that our representatives do not represent most Americans; they represent the interests of the wealthy. We live in a plutocratic oligarchy with only the trappings of representative democracy:
58% support universal health care: http://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-...
62% support debt-free college: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/majority-...
92% would prefer wealth distribution to look like Sweden: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/american...
What some believe Americans want or will accept is still odds with the reality. The actual problem in this country is that our representatives do not represent most Americans; they represent the interests of the wealthy. We live in a plutocratic oligarchy with only the trappings of representative democracy:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/the-second-gilde...
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/is-america-an-oli...