Passionate stuff A. Khaled, and eloquently written.
I agree with you that there are many issues (here in the US and the world) that are in urgent need of addressing and correcting. Bernie Sanders can be given enormous credit for aggressively pointing to them. His solutions (and he has more accusations than solutions) are at best wanting, and at worst dead wrong and counter to all the knowledge we have.
We need to get democracy working again because I can’t think (can you?) of a likable other system.
You may come to be pretty dissatisfied with Bernie in the White House because he will not be able to deliver what he is promising, and if he could deliver it, you may not like it much — and then what do you do?
The freedom of goods, money and people to move where they can best be used, has been overwhelmingly to our benefit, and yours I would guess — you have a computer and MEDIUM on which to express yourself which is due to these freedoms. China is a fantastic example of the benefits of trade. It opened itself to global trade, after hundreds of years of being utterly opposed to this, and its wealth multiplied exponentially. The standard of living of its people has risen dramatically (although rural areas not as much).
The terrible bad management of this trade boom in US was meanness to people who were adversely affected by trade openess and those at the economic bottom. This needs correcting urgently, otherwise we are all in danger of another Trump (or equivalent from the left). Unfortunately, Bernie Sanders approach is to throw sand in the machine that is responsible for our great wealth — that is to impair trade (eg he was against NAFTA twice and shut down TPP). Andrew Yang’s guaranteed income to every adult is one way of countering the trade negative side effects, and although he is no longer in the running, his excellent idea could be adopted by another.
I have in no way addressed all you valid complaints but I believe much can be done in your direction.
I prefer the term laissez faire liberal.
