What matters is not Bernie Sanders internal moral compass regarding political corruption but what his policies will do to fix it. Checking his website, his only goal is to overturn 'Citizens United' with a constitutional amendment. I'm sure he'll have no trouble getting that past an army of Wall Street lobbyists. And even if he did, it will do nothing to fix SEC regulators leaving government for cush jobs at Goldman Sachs, or the Clintons handing out favors for companies that hire Bill to give a 1 hour speech for $1.5 million. Meanwhile his expansion of government will give them more power to 'adjust' things in their favor.
Your position on Fukushima is equally strange. You specifically claimed that 'government ... performs this role very well in most other advanced nations, where people are generally happy, healthy, and prosperous'. Yet the Fukushima disaster could easily have been prevented with simple logic: don't build nuclear plants on earthquake fault lines. Your more general position (the important thing is that everyone is a 80 hour a week wage slave!) is equally puzzling.
TLDR: you need to stop pushing your value system on other people. Not everyone wants the same things.
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