"Big picture economically, America is the richest large country in the world on a per capita basis."

Doesn't matter one bit to the left because the wealth is not distributed exactly equally. Idiotic Keynesian doctrine has blinded more than half the country to the fact that something must be produced before it can be "distributed", and without incentives it doesn't get produced. They basically don't understand humanity, and set rules based on how they WISH people behaved, rather than how they actually do.

Also: "...American liberals operate with a scarcity mindset and need to switch to an Abundance Agenda." This is exactly backwards. The left actually thinks material abundance happens of its own accord, and financial incentives are unnecessary to get people to produce. Human history says the exact opposite. Its a scarcity mindset that gets people off their butts and working. If people believe the golden goose will always and everywhere be producing without a profit motive, that's the beginning of the end for capitalism.