Nothing socialists propose would "destroy America". America doesn't have to have injustice, inequality and choking poverty next to unearned splendor to be America. What defines America is simply the wish to be free, the imagination to find ways to expand freedom from all-an expansion that, to more and more people, means freedom from want, since no one can truly be free while they are struggling to survive. America is not a country that can only carry on by making itself unchangable or by crushing every dream of a different life within the spirit of everyone who dreams it.