That’s far too progressive for liberals, yet I’m not on board with the “burn it all down and let a socialist utopia rise from the ashes” perspective of the far-left.

I don’t know how you combat climate change if you refuse to touch the existing fossil fuel infrastructure.

I don’t know how you address mass incarceration if you won’t dismantle these massive organizations designed to surveil, arrest, and extort poor and homeless people at the scale we operate.

I don’t know how you address greedflation and wage theft on a national scale if you don’t touch the banking system, you leave in place these huge wage disparities, and you permit privatized industry to control all our critical natural resources.

When we talk about this kind of institution going away, we’re talking about creative destruction. Clear space for Green Energy. Establish real civil rights and social justice, rather than a trillion dollar pack of mall cops guarding the richest people’s property. Build an economy that allows public collaboration rather than industrial rent seeking.

That’s not even utopian. It’s just a step forward from capitalism.