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It was a crisp, cool spring day in Copenhagen on Sunday on April 12, 2015. Cheerful Danish families headed to places like the Rita Blå Lukus Lopper, one of the city’s favorite flea markets, in search of a lighthearted afternoon full of antique treasure hunting. In Amsterdam, Netherlands, the urban park Vondelpark was full of visitors enjoying its grassy playgrounds and signature rose garden. In both cities, the average family was enjoying a high, healthy quality of life. The woes of poverty, inequality, and sense of worth established by their government was nonexistent. Sunday morning in the United States, however, was greeted by something different. The average family was pouring bowls of sugar saturated, processed cereal before camping on the couch to watch hours of TV or monitoring social media. An overflow of talking heads took over dozens of channels, Twitter was anticipating the next “break the internet” phenomenon, with the “announcement of the century”: Hillary Clinton is running for President in 2016. “I want to be the champion of everyday Americans,” she boasts alongside smiling actors in her premiere campaign video. Everyday Americans do not know, however, that Goldman Sachs bank, a major player in the past devastating economic collapse that forced many middle class families into sudden poverty, is her campaign’s second biggest donor, and she has aligned herself with corporations like Wal-Mart, a store whose employees can sometimes be described as “working

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