"Being controlled in more effective ways, including the idea of Democratic reform as a peaceful transition away from capitalism" -
I think your sentence above is how I would characterize the period of 1950's-80s - when the country taxed corporations and high-income individuals. At that time our rivals were recovering from WWII and it seems there wasn't as much pressure to ramp up the war machine so there was more domestic spending (the vaulted "American Dream"
. They could pretend we had some sort of democracy and meritocracy that functioned for all. Of course the dream has now reverted back to nightmare status as we return to ramping up the war machine and reach levels of income inequality not seen in the past 100 years. We are back to robber barons (mostly tech billionaires & some of the old oil & gas and similar industries) and the rest of us. The capitalists are very good at pitting citizens against each other so they are focused on gods, guns, abortion etc while the moneyed class robs us blind.
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