Socks, you're sort of right but wrong at the same time.

stealing from Social Security, and deregulation in order to develop capitalist investment in the US corporate projects (from military to household goods & services).

Yes, whilst holding nominee accounts in say China. That was the case of British politicians and I reason US politicians as well, who during this period made nominee accounts secret because "it would jepordize national security and public safety," ie. your politicians are making money off you by betting against you. They worked to supress wages for thirty years to try to create an equilibbeium with China so as to "bring jobs back," as Trump and now Biden contends. That was part of the plan from the very beginning, all whilst offshoring. How sucessful were or will they be, time will only tell but the working and middle class still lost miserably and is and will be exploited by lower stagnanted wages not fixed to inflation as a tactic to devalue currency to "bring back these Jobs" in this make work meme service retail economy that is now unsustainable today. It's either, use a catalyst to slightly destroy the economy so as to inject credit or destroy it completely, have corporations buyback stocks and re-inject back into economy. Either way, covid appeared to be the perfect catylyzt for this and they did just that. In this case it happened to be Zionists, Jews and non-Jews as well as US corps lovely politicians that manufactured these problems so as to make a quick buck. Then again, Washington was probably worse than congress which is probably why they cut up his credit card.

One reason that this has continued for 40 years is that many in the US are glued to TVs, entertainment, internet, gaming, Fox News, and other fantasies that keep them from thinking about their lives and the impact of late stage capitalism on their futures. Indeed, many of them live vicariously in these imaginary worlds, and via reality TV, while also electing a reality TV star as president in 2016. The Kardashians are also part of the world of these slaves to capitalism.

Not really. For-profit pfivate corporations known as GOP and DNC select candidates, which is illegal and then the corporation known as the Electoral college and possibly congress selects who will become executive officer of US corp. The citizens 'vote' is a deception and does not count. It is useless. They already know who will win and who will contend for EO of Us corp well before they are selected. And, say if every citizen voted for Kayne Wedt and he won on 'Electoral college votes' and the popular vote, incorporated member reps would get together and vote against this and have congress vote in favor of someone else. So, a real populist that would transform the corporation so as to work for the people as a whole for the common good, can, legally, always be refused to step foot in office even if he wins all states and popular vote. Imagine that!

And before anyone wants to call the alternative to this "communism" or "socialism", think of the means by which wages remain low while the 1% get rich. That is socialism for the wealthy.

Exactly, very true. The problem in US corpland is people are ignorant, not very creative on what could be done and politicians are mostly greedy grifting Zionists that will always look out for their 100,000+ salary not including lobby money, than they would for the common good for all.

A moderate approach to capitalism would require that workers keep more of the company profits.

Which was a grievance of National Socialism but under an autocracy system of control that refused to allow the 'free-market' to work at the expense of the welfare of all, in this case, the ethnic German because Nazis were 'racially inclined' politicians, though diametrially opposed to Zionists who also implement, still to this day, 'racially inclined' policies, though diametrically opposed to Universal humanist Jews, who are becoming fewer and fewer as Zionist propaganda becomes stronger and stronger.

We can be creative though and we don't have to pick any ism or cry to mom about how the dead masonic greedy founders (bankers, Land speculators, lawyers, slave holders; not one Farmer or mechanic) believed this so we must do it; to recognize that what we have now is not working and that measures must be implemented to aid for the common good and welfare of all.

But for this to work, people will have to discard the many illusions in their lives that are supplied by the "international capitalists".

Now that is what a Nazi would say, are you a Nazi? You're literally Hitler... no wait... you're STALIN!!! Yes, I know they were funded by international capitalists in the beginning of their rise but who cares socks, you are worse than Hitler or Stalin, you are latching out as a peasant, this is shameful! /s