From a European perspective, the difference between the 'post election takes' of Jaime Harrison and Bernie Sanders was revealing. Harrison seemed to pretty much ignore both the fact of defeat, and any larger, longer perspective on America's over-exploitation of its workers, while lauding the few timid adjustments made by the Biden-Harris administration to the exploitative and dehumanising steamroller of US neoliberal capitalism.

Sanders: "60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before... real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago. Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents... Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee healthcare to all as a human right... We, alone among major countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.”