[creshal]

> We have the highest standard of living in history and anyone with an idea has at least a chance at making a success.

Never mind that social mobility and income equality are in a sharp decline and have been for several decades now. The American Dream is true because it has to be!

> People like Bernie Sanders aren't in it for the money, they are in it for the power..which is just as dangerous.

As if any presidential candidate of any party had ever not been in it for the power. The question is what they want to do with that power.

> Socialism (or Democratic Socialism) removes all of these chances

The chance to be allowed to train your H1B replacements? The chance to juggle three minimum wage jobs to survive? The chance to experience bankruptcy because a standard medical treatment costs several ten thousands of dollars?

Silicon Valley is not the US. The experience of its upper class do not translate to the other 299 million Americans.