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That's wild, the American brain truly cannot comprehend the amount of things you can have for free in the EU and in Nordic countries haha
It's a good point to remember that in other countries where they have more social safety net and social good baked in to their system the citizens still feel duped. The far right is rising all over the western world right now.
I definitely agree with your points. I want that type of leader on the left who can really changed things for the better here. But the system will never fund him. Bernie was doing crazy things with grass roots fund raising. His 27$ donation campaign was getting thousands of working class people to donate. I didn't know if we can ever get that kind of effort going again.
I don't know how you bridge the gap between what the people donate and what's required to win a presidential campaign because the elite are not going to help a far left candidate the way they help a Biden or Obama.
And that problem assumes we solved the other big issue of getting someone through the primary and selected to run.
Those are the hurdles where I get disheartened thinking about how an actual good candidate would be so hard to elect. They will fight that person every step of the way.
If you believe Michael Moore, the dnc lied at the 2016 convention and stole votes from Bernie in a critical state to ensure Hillary was selected. that's the type of things that really makes me question how much we could really grab at one time.
To me, it seems necessary to use stepping stones to elect someone who will do the campaign finance law reforms and maybe revamp the primary system. Then you can reach for that ultra progressive candidate. But that's just a back of a napkin theory. Idk how to really do it.