Matthew Dowd: We aren't in top ten on quality of life, happiness, freedom, economic equality, education, and democracy.

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3. Here's the thing

People will poo poo a lot of this stuff with things like, "Well, we're never going to be Finland because..." Finland should be looking at us in envy, we have a bigger economy, there is more welath here than in Finland, it's just more concentrated in the hands of the elites.

The US can remain the biggest and best economy and do everything that Finland does for their citizens and more. We can afford a robust social safety net, early retirement in dignity for all, good schools for all, universal health care for all, the best infrastructure, paid family leave, mandatory vacation and sick time, living wages etc etc. But the top 1/10th of 1% prevent it all from happening here, because they want it all for themselves. It;s not enough to be obsenely rich for them, they want to be so absurdly rich than no group has ever lived like them, held as much power as them, or owned as much stuff as them. Greed is stopping us from being great.

And the entire country was justy handed over to the greediest of the greedy. They want it all. Everything the middle class has and has worked for, the billionaire class wants for themselves and they've installed Trump to give it to them.