Fuck off with doomer takes.

“The government” is not a person. It’s lots of individual people executing control. They get more and more of it the less people collectively decide to participate and push alternative ideas to their methods of control. Like, say, mocking the idea the government would ever do anything for them.

Bernie is trying, even knowing there’s often low chance of immediate success. It forces oligarchs to fumble their way through efforts to explain why their position is bad. That can push a lot of people from undecided positions to pro-populist ones.

If New York listened to people like you, they NEVER would have gotten Mamdani in place. You may be vastly underestimating how important it is for the government to maintain some level of popularity with its actions.