The only avowed socialist in the race for president told Anna Marie Cox that it's time for socialism to be imposed on America. Bernie Sanders thinks that income inequality and widespread poverty are reasons to give socialism a chance. What is your elevator pitch for socialism? My elevator pitch is that the United States has a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality where the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, where almost 20 percent of our children are living in poverty, 40 percent of African-American children are living in poverty. We are moving rapidly toward an oligarchic form of society where a small number of families control not only the economy but our political system as well. It is imperative that we develop a strong political movement that says to the billionaire class they cannot have it all. A recent poll showed that Americans are more willing to vote for a Muslim or an atheist for president than a...(Read Full Post)