like, how do you really approach the average american and just like, empathetically convey that they need to raze this fucking barn
i mean especially the groups out there who historically had some level of buy-in to the system and are in denial about their exclusion - like what is the metaphorical eye-piece nada can force onto their eyes to see the basic truth: we gonna have to do something unpleasant to change this sitch
A good seed you can plant is by pointing out that in all the countries that “followed our example” by moving from monarchy to democracy basically nobody did it like we did it. Even the countries the USA had complete control over like Japan after WW2. Nobody looks at our broken-as-shit system and says “heck yeah let’s do it that way!” Other systems and governments are rife with counter-democratic structures and corruptions unique to their own situations of course, but the whole world had our system as a possible inspiration and said “ehhh not like that.” That refusal has happened hundreds of times in hundreds of countries.
Start by chipping away at the parts of American exceptionalism like that. Plant seeds of doubt.