Utopia or Oblivion! Social Democracy is based on the government regulating private corporations. Unfortunately the U.S. government has been “captured” by big business and oligarchs. They write the laws, not the ‘people’. It’s regulatory powers are used to transfer power to the rich and subjugate the middle class. If we move to a Social Democracy greater powers would go to public-private fascist state. We now have “State Capitalism” which is an interpenetration of government and big business. Social Democracy works for small European countries because they are small. U.S. is too big, and has functioned under State Capitalism for too long to go back to a simpler system.