Sure it can. Simply tax the rich at a much higher rate, like we used to, and use the money to fund social programs like UBI, affordable healthcare, and community gardens.
That's the problem when mindless Leftists chime in without knowing anything about what they are speaking. Your solution is to punish those who add value by confiscating their reward for adding value and to reward those who do not add value by simply giving them the confiscated wealth. The only other thing in nature that operates according to this model is cancer ... and cancer always ends up dying. The only question is whether the host dies as well or whether the host can kill it first.
The rich would still be rich, but they wouldn't be nearly as rich and powerful as they are now.
Nope, for the same reason there are no more rich people in Venezuela who are not in the government or in some international criminal syndicate. Now, the most successful of Venezuelans are those who can extract food from the trash before starving to death. Your solution is bogus. There's a reason Marxist wealth redistribution has never worked. Ever.
You support Fascist wannabe dictators like Trump.
He's not a fascist. Your babbling is dismissed.
I oppose any form of Authoritarianism.
You oppose any authority, period. You oppose the rule of law. You denigrate those who uphold the law and praise those who make a mockery of it. You are prime ANTIFA material.
The 1% gives politicians money in return for regulations that benefit them.
Here you are demonizing an entire class of people and it makes you a bigot. You should not be proud of this.
This is why Republicans have always grown government more than Democrats,
False statement. Dismissed.
The Right has never been about small government.
Incorrect. The Right has always been about smaller/limited government and the Left has always been about bloating the government and getting it so drunk on power that it becomes one big Nancy Pelosi.
The problem is that
politicians, both on the Right and on the Left, rarely have any intention to shrink the government and to limit government spending. Republicans/Conservatives have the same problems as Democrats/Leftists holding their elected officials accountable for undelivered promises. In the end, politicians just find it easier to take the country further into debt, give all politicians of the party in power something to give their constituents and let future generations fix any messes they make.
The Right has always been about having a strict hierarchical society.
Like everything else, you have this backwards. The Right leans libertarian and values individual freedom. The left wants lockdown and is willing to lie to its gullible base in order to frighten them into compliance. The Right seeks to preserve the 1st and 2nd Amendments whereas the Left would like nothing better than to get rid of them and immediately crush society under their thumb.
Knowing this helps to understand why conservative presidents create bigger government
Like everything else, you have this backwards. The Left is pushing the Green New Deal and other $Bajillion-Trillion programs. You have to add up a decade of Republican spending to match what the Democrats want to spend next week.
...and the Right has opposed every movement to help create a level playing field.
Trump brought record low unemployment to American blacks and hispanics. Nobody has done more to bring about a level playing field than Trump.