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

Despite spending far more per capita than other countries, today we remain the only wealthy country 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, alone among the big countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.

Today, despite strong opposition from a 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 horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands children.

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