Cost of flight and hotel, or cost of gas and wear to your vehicle if you drive, time needed to take off work if needing a half day’s drive to reach. Time+Money=freedom which is something American’s that live below six figures incomes just don’t fuckin’ have.
Honestly it just feels like he projects a lot of stuff that overlaps with fascist ideology as well as having a horrid concept of actual leftism, then again Ted having a fried brain makes sense given he decided to just randomly send out bombs to harm workers.
So far score wise I feel the kid that did in Abe via the had the best consciousness not to turn into a reactionary bent on harming innocents and instead applied his suffering to a target that has materially contributed to that situation (Abe family and the moonies). i.e. Ted is an example of a mfer with no class consciousness deciding to “solve the problem”.