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72% of Americans support paid leave programs: http://www.apnorc.org/news-media/Pages/News+Media/Poll-shows-strong-support-for-paid-family-leave-programs.aspx http://www.apnorc.org/news-media/Pages/News+Media/Poll-shows... 58% support universal health care: http://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-funded-healthcare-system.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-... 62% support debt-free college: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/majority-of-americans-want-college-to-be-free https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/majority-... 92% would prefer wealth distribution to look like Sweden: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/americans-want-to-live-in-a-much-more-equal-country-they-just-dont-realize-it/260639/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/american... What some believe Americans want or will accept is still odds with the reality. The actual problem in this country is that our representatives do not represent most Americans; they represent the interests of the wealthy. We live in a plutocratic oligarchy with only the trappings of representative democracy: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/the-second-gilded-age-has-america-become-an-oligarchy-a-793896.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/the-second-gilde... http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/is-america-an-oligarchy http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/is-america-an-oli...