Nor could you easily learn how people in other countries lived.
It was way easier to have this garbage Healthcare system we have in the US back when nobody knew that other countries had it for free (potentially, I don't know what year it was implemented in most countries but you get my point).
I'm not sure I agree if you look at the early campaign when he first joined he was very much not doing the same old same old... for like 2 weeks.
Then Harris decided to go full corporatism and muzzled him. I'm not sure he's right to run, but I'd trust him way more than most other dems.