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by ben_w 992 days ago
Convince enough voting Americans that America isn't #1 at everything and can in fact learn from other nations and improve things by copying what they do.

For example, the low-end supermarket brand here in Berlin actually sells fresh fruit and vegetables, so we don't get the "food deserts" that the US suffers from (or if they do exist, nowhere near as severely): https://www.aldi-nord.de/sortiment/obst-und-gemuese.html

They also sell micro-PV systems for people renting apartments: https://www.aldi-onlineshop.de/p/plug--play-balkon-kraftwerk...

And a nation-wide (non-express) public transport pass costs €49/month.