2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartman Just Had A Man Named Sam Smith On [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)...strong common institutions such as the U.S. Postal Service, public utilities and public colleges and universities, strong laws against media monopolies and unfair political use of the public airwaves, strong laws against banksters and other predatory capitalists, the promotion of equal opportunity, the promotion of civil rights for all, the promotion of public participation, and many other policies that seek the COMMON GOOD.
The "far left" = the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, which rescued this country from the predatory capitalists WHO HAD BROUGHT IT DOWN.
Americans damn well DID accept--and, indeed, welcomed--socialism as an absolutely necessary counterbalance to capitalism. Capitalism will never result in the Common Good, by itself. Private money, by itself, will never create a postal service for all, and that all can afford; will never provide free education, even for children; will never build roads, bridges, town halls, public libraries, parks, community centers, and other infrastructure that all can use; will never create a common fund retirement system (and is actively trying to destroy the one we have); and it will almost never willingly pay a living wage (except for a very rare few business people who want to live in a good society, and/or who understand that prosperity for all is prosperity for them). In short, capitalism and private money will never create a decent life for all; and will almost never do anything that doesn't pad the pockets of the already rich. It takes democracy and government to create a good society.
You are very much mistaken about the Democratic Party, and what it is--or should be--and who it belongs to--or should belong to. And you are very much mistaken about what "far-left" means.