Despite the explosion in technology and labor productivity, many young people today will have a worse standard of living than their parents. And many of them fear that artificial intelligence and robotics will make the bad situation even worse.

Although we now spend far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation that does not guarantee health care for all as a human right, and we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We are the only country among major countries that cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.

Today, despite strong opposition from the majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions to finance the extremist Netanyahu government's all-out war against the Palestinian people, which has led to the terrible humanitarian catastrophe of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.

Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn real lessons from his disaster campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation experienced by tens of millions of Americans? Do you have any ideas on how we can take on the increasingly powerful oligarchy that wields so much economic and political power? Probably not.