"Once we become as open minded"
I think that's backwards. Once you get health care and college without bankruptcy, the friction between the lower classes will recede since the right wing scum will find it harder to make the working class hate each other without the economic stressors.
Getting people more open-minded while they suffer and the tv tells them "it's the brown people's fault" is going to be hard, unless we ease the suffering.

Just my two cents.

The Scandinavian countries are certainly great places but I don’t think we should try to become like them. Sweden for example has a population of only 10 million, spread over a large area. All the Scandinavian countries have an official national religion—Evangelical Lutheranism. In Sweden 60% of citizens are members.

Hunting and fishing are VERY prominent in the Scandinavian countries. Those values seem to clash with current American suburban culture.

The Scandinavian countries have some excellent social programs, but they also embrace capitalism. Norway, i.e. is perhaps the country most heavily committed to capitalism in the world, with vast stock holdings.

So far as standard of living, Sweden and the US are very close according to this analysis:

[en.m.wikipedia.org]

Interesting post.
I don't think the USA can become like Denmark, Sweden, or New Zealand. The USA population is too large, too diverse, and has too many subcultures with conflicting cultural values.

And stop pissing away over $600B a year on being the world's police force that no one wants - because we are actually just in it mostly for the oil. Add invest in real education - not just testification and supplying bodies for the $2T education industry. Add stop locking up over 2 million of the population to provide bodies for the prison industrial complex - almost 7 million in jail or under supervision of the courts as of 2013.

Don't forget the Vikings were arguably the most viscus, cruel, take no prisoners, rule by terror, scorched earth invaders the world has seen. They were so feared France paid tax money just to have the Vikings leave them alone and not destroy Paris.

That sounds classist af. "Youre born into your lot. Doing struggle, accept your fate". How the Catholic church has kept a third of the world in chains.

I agree that the US has a very long ways to go. And we have the Republican party opposing us every step of the way. And they have a Republican majority on the Supreme Court too and if Trump wins again they will be 2 more Republican appointments. Republicans represent the mentality and the prejudices of right wing Christians and they are opposed to positive change and instead want to prepare for the end of the world with no thought to negative consequences in our present world.