Reply #23: I don't think we ever did think that way. [View All]

[CTyankee]

Cutthroat capitalism has been our economic system for many, many years.

While I agree with you on paying jobs, I have to say that we sometimes think we are living in a democracy that is actually going to enact social justice in a productive way, such as the Swedes and the Germans have. We need to face the fact that we don't live in Sweden or Germany. They have what we don't and, as far as I can see, never will. There would have to be massive resistance on the part of the American people to throw off this system we have and adopt one more like Sweden and Germany. But you and I both know that is NOT going to happen. Americans won't revolutionize their system, no matter what we progressives think, no matter how much we talk about how we can be socially just and competitive in the global market at the same time.

I see no evidence that the American people are going to "wake up" and shake things up...