Month: May 2022

  • The First Sixteen Months

    My friends, it’s been a long time, but I am finally ready to assess what we have seen from President Biden and the Democratic Congress in the aftermath of the Trump Era.

     

    We’re going to go through all the major issues and assess how the president and his party have handled them. Word of warning to the reader: this will be as blunt an assessment as you might expect from a Progressive Independent. So, if you are “triggered” by criticism from the political left you might want to stop reading now. Moreover, if you are a rightwinger reading this for kicks, I am not going to be kind to the Republicans either. Let’s go.

     

    COVID-19:

     

    First and foremost, it is important to note that pandemics are supposed to be apolitical, but the Republicans and Former President Trump changed that. Unfortunately, throughout 2020, the Republicans and Trump NEVER had a clear message about the pandemic. Instead, they would occasionally mention the serious nature of combating the virus while simultaneously lending credence to ridiculous conspiracy theories.

     

    This lack of a unified approach – across party lines – created a partisan division over the crisis. Rather than work with Democrats to end the madness, Republicans sought to sew civil division over it. Trump and his corrupt authoritarian party convinced a sizeable chunk of the population that there was no need to aggressively combat the virus. They portrayed Democrats as wanting to destroy the economy and replace capitalism with socialism. The rightwing base ate this up, and it undeniably extended the life of the crisis.

     

    Enter President Joe Biden and a Democratic Congress sixteen months ago. What has been done about the virus since? Barely anything. Some points for at least a handful of meaningful measures, first. President Biden authorized a limited supply of free at-home COVID tests for all Americans. He granted access to free masks. Additionally, he signed a bill which gave $1,400 to qualifying Americans.

     

    Beyond that? We have seen students sent back to school with a mixture of safety standards, effectively guaranteeing mass exposure to the virus. Public venues have reverted to practically nonexistent restrictions. Another shutdown has been practically ruled out entirely by this president. Lastly, workers have been under attack as corporate America launches a campaign saying that “nobody wants to work” while they insist on paying low wages and utilizing deceptive “hiring” practices.

     

    The number of total deaths from COVID-19 just surpassed one million. In just over two years, that’s roughly 500,000 deaths each year on average since the outbreak began (which far surpasses deaths from the flu, by the way). President Biden and the Democrats yielded as they always do in the face of Republican criticism. Not wanting to be portrayed as too extreme by a party that is happily and openly extremist, the Democrats in charge have permitted the virus to remain a major factor and have backed down.

     

    Despite all the progress, we are willingly losing a winnable war.

     

    Healthcare:

     

    No major issue is more relevant in these times than the healthcare issue. Despite being massively popular, the idea of true universal coverage (which can only be guaranteed through a public-funded single payer program, via Medicare), the Democrats have done NOTHING on this issue. This is despite the fact that we are quite literally enduring a major healthcare crisis by way of the coronavirus. Countless citizens fail to get regular health checkups or receive the medication that they need due to the private and “everybody for themselves” chaotic nature of our healthcare system here in America.

     

    Biden won the White House in part on a message of “fixing” the Affordable Care Act. However, his do-nothing Democratic Congress has sat on their hands. It should come as no surprise that many of these Democrats are in the same back pockets of wealthy health insurance and pharmaceutical oligarchs as the Republicans. If it wasn’t going to happen now then it was never going to happen (except maybe in California).

     

    Guns:

     

    Talk is cheap, and the Democrats on the national stage have been nothing but talk on the issue of guns ever since the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban expired under Bush in 2004. Democrats had the chance to deal with this issue from 2009 until 2010, when they literally had a supermajority in both Houses of Congress. Even when Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy’s vacated seat in late-2009, they still had a monstrous majority in the House and 59 Senate Seats. Yet, nothing.

     

    This was despite the massacres in the intervening years such as in 2007 at Virginia Tech. They wasted their chance to act on guns irrespective of them being up in arms about the Assault Weapons Ban expiring under Republican control. In 2010, the people resoundingly elected a Republican majority in the House of Representatives. The chance to act had passed.

     

    Then, Sandy Hook happened. In December 2012, barely over a month after President Obama won reelection, over two dozen were murdered in a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school. Democrats demanded action and President Obama – to his credit – tried to take action unilaterally via executive orders. The problem, though, is that permanent, concrete action must come through Congress, and they did nothing…again. Dead children mattered not to them. Only the money from the gun lobby mattered.

     

    Just over five years later, under President Trump and a Republican Congress, Parkland, Florida experienced a gruesome school massacre. We already knew that the Republicans and Trump wouldn’t do anything (because money and power matter more to them than dead students), but what have the Democrats done since retaking power in 2021? Not a damn thing.

     

    Yes, the Democratic Majorities are razor-thin, but that isn’t an excuse for seemingly forgetting the growing numbers of more needless deaths. If you aren’t willing to lose your job to do what’s right by the people then what’s the point?

     

    LGBT Rights:

     

    Say what you want about President Obama, but he and the Congressional Democrats actually delivered a set of promises to the LGBT community. The biggest promise kept was on repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, which had previously kept the ban on anyone from the community from serving in the military. In 2010, Democrats repealed that policy. Then, in 2015, Democrats (and I) celebrated the legalization of same sex marriage via the Supreme Court decision that summer.

     

    What has happened since? Trump and the Republicans launched a series of attacks on the LGBT community. The primary target was on transgender service members and on transgender people using public restrooms. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party has done little to respond to this culture war since they have been in power.

     

    Democrats - naturally – just as with Guns and the next issue, are afraid of being dragged into another divisive “wedge issue”. The Republicans tend to dominate these debates, because they rely on fear and ignorance. As for Democrats, they always get trapped in a cycle of explaining why they are right, leading to glossed-over eyes and turned off “moderates”.

    The key is to NEVER let the Republicans control the narrative. Instead of letting the fascists in the GOP paint the Democrats as “attacking American values”, Democrats should be pointing out the corruption of the Republicans and insisting that the American people explore why the “Party of Lincoln” is always trying to divide us. Sadly, Democrats have always sucked at messaging – and there is no reason to believe that they will improve now - while the Republicans win on simplistic “bumper sticker” hate slogans.

     

    Abortion:

     

    The mother of all “wedge issues” is abortion. A woman’s right to choose is sacrosanct in ensuring bodily autonomy as a universal guarantee for all. Without this right it is not possible for women to be treated as equals to men in a society which demands that we each establish our own worth with respect to our ability to generate wealth.

     

    Campaigning in 2019 and then in 2020, then-Candidate Biden pledged alongside the other candidates to fight for codification of Roe v. Wade, to guarantee that the right to choose an abortion would never be repealed by a ruling of the Supreme Court which has only grown more conservative since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Then, Biden won the presidential election (and yes, he did win) alongside the Democrats winning Congress. What have they done about it since? Guess.

     

    If you guessed “nothing” then you win a big, golden, wire hanger. Gross? Maybe, but so is the reality of a world where George H.W. Bush’s appointee Clarence Thomas, George W. Bush’s Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, as well as Donald Trump’s Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett now constitute the dominant end (opposite Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer and Obama’s Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan) of a 6-3 super majority of conservatives running the most powerful unelected body in the history of humankind. Earlier this month, in a leaked draft opinion of the Court, five of the six conservative Justices (with only Roberts dissenting) seem to have signed on to upend stare decisis (that is the principle of legal precedent) and overturn the Roe v. Wade decision. Now more than ever it is obvious that elections have consequences and if Congress and President Biden continue to fail to act on this matter it will be incredibly consequential.

     

    The War on Drugs:

     

    If there is any issue where both parties have been to blame for inaction or the wrong action, the so-called “War on Drugs” is at the top of that list. Since President Richard Nixon launched it as part of his attempt to crack down on crime, the “conflict” has predominantly been a windfall for the military and police budgets while also doing practically nothing to impact the number of people who actually use and traffic illegal substances. Tragically, one large side effect (intentional or not, and we will get to that momentarily) is that the prison population has exploded in that time with minorities making up the bulk.

     

    This isn’t to say that minorities are predisposed to committing crime or that they are more likely to use drugs. In fact, there is evidence that poverty and environment have far more to do with whether someone commits a crime than race ever has. The truth of the matter is that courts tend to convict minority suspects more than white suspects, and it has more to do with our cultural biases than with people of color being more criminal (but this really needs to be saved for the next topic).

     

    With the “War on Drugs”, the Drug Cartels are arguably winning the war, because it is more about demand than about the supply chain. As long as the demand (which can NOT be stemmed through brutal use of force) exists the supply (which is very easy to move under the radar, given its abundance) will always be able to find wanting hands. Couple this with the fact that our medical system has allowed pharmaceuticals to produce addictive substances, which are then allowed to be spoon fed to the population, you find a groundswell for a spiking opioid epidemic as those same people are eventually denied further supply for their addiction.

     

    What happens to the addicts of pain killers? They find meth and other similar drugs which helps kill the pain and then continues and eventually exacerbates their condition. Imprisoning the addict is only a temporary solution and it actually can make matters worse as the addict is then forced to share prison space with suppliers who connect them to worse habits. The best option is for free and unlimited access to rehab as well as a pathway to building a future which sets the addict to successfully battle their affliction.

     

    Rather than take this head on, NO ONE in government from either party has acted like they give a shit. The addiction epidemics continue to flourish in the wake of rising poverty, lack of healthcare, and homelessness. I am willing to bet that nothing will be done at all about this before the next 16 months.

     

    Race:

     

    Let’s talk about the deepest wound which has plagued this country from its very birth. I am referring to the issue which the Founding Fathers bestowed upon us to appease slave-owners and slave-traders in order to successfully launch a Revolution and then to maintain the Union whilst drafting the Constitution. The issue of race has been with us from the beginning, it caused a Civil War, led to the slaughter and even extinction of countless Native American Tribes, contributed to the exploitation of Chinese labor in building the railroad, gave us Jim Crow and so-called “Black Codes”, produced the KKK, and resulted in a century-long campaign to get BASIC rights guaranteed (which is still NOT over, by the way).

     

    …Oh…you thought I was done? The race question also gave us immigration quotas, lynchings, torched churches with dead children inside, innocent protests hosed down by police on national television (which the whole world actually saw), the “War on Drugs”, the “War on Crime”, assassinated civil rights leaders, and the Nixon-orchestrated political backlash against any progress.

     

    NOPE…not yet done. It also gave us more legal injustices than a single blog post could enumerate. Rodney King’s abuse by white cops ON CAMERA was ignored in the 1990’s! The portrayal of African American and Hispanic American men and women as lazy and “welfare queens” came from this unaddressed cancer in our society. Images of young black men as the standard bearer for “thugs” while young white men who commit ACTUAL crimes are merely portrayed as “troubled youths” are VERY recent.

     

    The race issue also contributes…today…to poor communities of color getting ignored. From their education needs to environmental concerns, policymakers STILL write them off as someone else’s problem. It’s not unreasonable to conclude that the deaths AFTER Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana in 2005 were worsened by this issue.

     

    Then we have the most overt consequence of our collective refusal to address this issue: police brutality and the countless murdered black men and women at the hands of those in positions of authority. It’s bad enough that police kill anyone at such large numbers, but when you examine the demographics of the people they kill or otherwise abuse it becomes painfully obvious who the primary victims are. We still struggle to see even a single officer held accountable for crimes they commit ON CAMERA, and when you join that problem with the population which sees the least amount of balance in justice you have a recipe for disaster.

     

    There is simply no excuse for the inaction by either party on this, especially considering how willing both sides were to hand the keys to the authoritarian elements.
     

    Immigration:

     

    Further inflaming those authoritarian elements is the lack of unity amongst the parties on immigration. The Republican Party predominantly advocates for more border patrol and a border wall. This stems from the internet and talk radio-spread paranoia of an “invasion” by darker skinned peoples migrating across the border and “taking our jobs” and “voting illegally”. Trump’s rant in the summer of 2015 was a nod to this racist, xenophobic fear, and his promise of a border wall fired up the rightwing base like nothing the U.S. has seen in decades.

     

    Only twice within the last 20 years has a significant immigration reform bill been proposed: in 2007 and then again in 2014. The latter of the two was more progressive, but the former actually had a shot at passing as it was VERY bipartisan. Unfortunately, back in 2007, xenophobia was still prevalent in the Democratic Party’s base, so it was shot down in a bipartisan way. When the Democrats tried again in 2014, the ship of a bipartisan solution had sailed as the Republicans almost completely remained united against giving President Obama any kind of symbolic victory.

     

    Now, after the insanity of Trump’s overt xenophobia, including a ban on Muslims from entering the country, continuing and expanding on the separation of families inherited from the Obama years (which involved putting these families in cages), and the promises of a wall, Democrats have done very little to propose – much less pass – a new reform bill. Countless families remain separated, deportations continue, and the xenophobia only festers. It may well be too late now, because the campaign for the 2022 Midterms is in full swing.

     

    Fascism:

     

    Throughout our history, America has long flirted with fascism. From the Indian Removal Act under Andrew Jackson and his spoils system of rewarding friends and allies with power to the Civil War policies of unilaterally suspending habeas corpus and otherwise dictatorial behavior under Lincoln, from Theodore Roosevelt’s employment of the “bully pulpit” and attacking of the media to Hoover dispatching the military to attack and silence a protest by World War One veterans, from FDR’s threatening the Supreme Court to Nixon’s fear tactics using the FBI to attack dissenters, from Bush’s intentional lies to generate support for a war to Trump’s use of all the worst characteristics of his predecessors to protect his ego and agenda, we have seen fascism rising in America over a very long time.

     

    Donald Trump wasn’t the first fascist to hold the White House, he was merely the latest and most overt holder of this expanded political power which has only grown over the course of our history. If Trump had been a more astute fascist politician, we would have never had an election in 2018, much less 2020. The failure of Congress to rein in ANY of the abuses which have been presided over by our military’s “Commander in Chief” has produced a dictatorship waiting for someone to capitalize. Tragically, the Democrats have been guilty of expanding presidential power or at least permitting it, unabated. They are not interested in pulling us back from the brink of authoritarianism for fear that they would willfully cede such power from their own hands.

    Power corrupts, and all that. President Biden has showed no signs of relinquishing the powers that he inherited from his predecessors, and never campaigned on doing so to begin with.

     

    Education:

     

    The threat of fascism can never be dealt with unless we also deal with our failing education system. These failures are from top to bottom, too. We fail our toddlers, we fail our elementary students, we fail middle and high schoolers, and we ultimately fail our adult learners. Why do we fail them? This is because the goal of our education system isn’t to facilitate social mobility and a well-educated populace, but rather to train the students to be productive cogs in the capitalist war machine. That’s right, the goal is to make people nothing more than pawns in a grand political and economic game for the benefit of the few.

     

    For this reason, deep poverty and even homelessness are tolerated. Our policymakers turn a blind eye to the still-remaining inequities in the workforce from gender bias and racial bias to the exploitation of child, senior, and handicap labor. Civic participation is not taught at length because those in power don’t want you to know your own power. They want you to be a docile sheep following the orders of your herder. When the time comes to march in battle or to produce goods, they want you to do it without asking any questions.

     

    This is the biggest reason why student loan debt is permitted alongside all the hurdles that one must overcome to escape poverty, because if it was too easy to escape poverty there wouldn’t be enough peasants to whom they could peddle the fear of starvation or even manipulate into becoming a casualty in the wealthy’s wars. For this reason, we don’t get too in depth on teaching about the power of the people in the workforce, because an educated workforce is harder to exploit. We don’t teach kids, we condition them, and we capitalize on that conditioning at every turn.

     

    The capitalization of the “education” of Americans comes in numerous forms. Our standardized testing is the most obvious. It’s two-fold. On the one hand, a handful of book printers make our textbooks and then produce the tests that we force upon our kids (which have no educational value). The worst aspect of this testing is the second part of it. The testing is then used to assess the economic value of each child. Instead of helping children improve their learning, we test them to streamline moving them from poverty to prosperity. Once you are on a prosperous path, the likelihood of you and your children remaining prosperous increases.

     

    Ultimately, this is why Democrats – whether or not Biden has been at the helm - are not doing anything to reform the educational system (and it will be a miracle if they ever do expand education to pre-K). Too many of them are bought and paid for by the same corporate interests who profit from it.

     

    Student Loans:

     

    As noted before, student loans exist to maintain the barrier between the poor and the wealthy. You want to keep a large base of workers to exploit for low wages in order to protect the profit margins for the few. President Biden rode into the White House in part on the promise to cancel up to $10,000 of every student’s debt. This was in stark contrast to the vision of Senator Bernie Sanders who saw the problem for what it is when he proposed an absolute cancellation of student debt and the adoption of tuition-free public colleges and universities. The laughable part about Biden’s plan is that canceling $10,000 in student debt would mean nothing as the interest and penalties for late-payment would wipe out the supposed savings in no time for most indebted graduates.

    Moreover, ALL student loans have been frozen throughout the pandemic. OVER TWO YEARS have gone by without mandatory repayments and the economy hasn’t collapsed. The banks are doing just fine. All of the fearmongering about what wholesale student loan debt cancellation would do has been proven wrong by this delay alone. At this point, one has to wonder why the Biden Administration and their allies in Congress are holding water for the student debt collectors. Well, I already answered that in the previous section. It’s not about education; it’s about ensuring the preservation of our system of exploitation.

     

     

    Assistance Programs:

     

    The pandemic placed millions more people on assistance in an emergency expansion of those programs. From food stamps to Medicaid, from unemployment to you name it, millions of people suddenly found themselves in a state of crisis when their jobs were forcefully shut down to curb the spread of the virus. What this taught us is that we continue to need these programs as a safety net to prevent deep poverty, mass homelessness, and mass starvation. Unfortunately, the Republicans and the Conservative Democrats are still hell-bent on attacking assistance programs as a key source of the government’s growing debt.

     

    Truth is, the debt is exploding because of tax cuts for the wealthy and our insatiable love of war. The poor are a convenient punching bag for those in power to redirect public anger about taxation and the cost of living (two subjects to be addressed down the line), so that’s why they are ALWAYS brought up when the topic of national debt, taxation, budget deficits, and waste are addressed. Worst of all, the poor have few visible allies who are taken seriously by our corporate media. So, public opinion is always being molded to join the fray in attacking the poor and all assistance programs.

     

    With the Democrats, they have only joined the Republicans in weakening these programs over the last thirty years. Bowing to the attacks by Republicans claiming that Democrats are “big government liberals”, Democrats scurry to dodge that label and point to their cuts in “welfare” as a key example of how they are “fiscally responsible”. President Biden never campaigned on changing that narrative, so don’t expect any effort from him here to ever reverse course on our war against the poor.

     

    Childcare:

     

    Something else Democrats have long advocated for but have never tried to deliver on is universal childcare. Childcare is essential for working families, because the cost of paying for a babysitter is prohibitive. In fact, childcare is so expensive that many families are better off not working. This has to change if we are serious about building our economy and lifting people out of poverty, but there is little reason to have faith that it will for the same reasons as listed above about the barriers between the poor and the rich. Making it too easy for everyone to survive and thrive means empowering the working class and handing them the tools they need to escape exploitation.

     

    President Biden offered a vision to address this while campaigning, but has done little to nothing in pushing for it to be passed through Congress as president.

     

    Family Leave:

     

    In the 1990s, Democrats succeeded in passing the Family and Medical Leave Act, which guarantees 12 weeks of unpaid leave to every worker who has worked at their job for a specific period of time. The problem, obviously, is that it is unpaid, which makes it an unappealing privilege to utilize. Your job may be protected, but how on Earth are you going to pay your bills if you go 3 months without working? The key here is to guarantee, by law, that this leave will be paid so that working families can actually take needed time off with family, or for health purposes, without worrying about becoming homeless.

     

    Democrats have advocated for this for decades, but they have never actually tried to deliver on it. Even President Biden seemed to indicate that he was supportive, but Congress has yet to send him something to sign. When President Obama had supermajorities in both Houses of Congress, nothing was done to advance this proposal either, so it stands to reason that the current makeup of the Democratic Party can’t be trusted to ever actually deliver on this promise. Tragically, millions of people are left to hope that they never have an emergency or that they have a generous employer who offers paid leave.

     

    The Right to Organize:

     

    Another issue where Democrats talk a big game and deliver little is on the issue of the right to organize in the workplace. Not since FDR has a president of either party actually been strong on this issue. Back in 2009, there was a solid effort to deliver on a promise to guarantee the right of organizing a union via what was called the Employee Free Choice Act, and President Obama ran partially on signing this bill into law. The problem, though, was that when he got into office the bill was never given a serious hearing despite the overwhelming majorities in Congress that Democrats enjoyed at the time.

     

    In the years since that failure to deliver on a vital promise, the Supreme Court has gradually dismantled the protections for workers. One such major dismantling came in the form of the Court’s ruling that workers had the right to work at a Union job without having to join or contribute to it. Congress has been silent on this by way of taking action to protect unions, and the threat is far from over.

     

    President Biden ran as a key ally of unions, more or less promising to stand up for them. What has he and Congress done since being given power? I’m afraid to say that it is another big, fat, nothing.

     

    A Living Wage:

     

    When Senator Bernie Sanders ran for president in the 2016 campaign, he was mocked relentlessly – including by the eventual nominee, Hillary Clinton – for adopting the organized labor demand to “Fight for $15 [an hour]”. Then, when he came very close to upsetting the former Secretary of State for the nomination, the Democratic Party gradually adjusted to supporting – on paper – a living wage of $15 an hour. Even candidate former-Vice President Biden adopted the proposal in his own bid for the White House in 2020.

     

    Now, despite the rhetoric, Democrats have allowed a handful of Conservative Democrats to get away with blocking this important proposal. Senator Sinema from Arizona, specifically, infamously mimicked John McCain when she dramatically marched to the Senate floor to give a “thumbs down” as her vote against raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Since 2016, the Democrats have adopted an expression online for voters to “Vote Blue No Matter Who”, but this betrayal of the working class by Sinema absolutely should demonstrate why that mindset is a problem.

     

    Why hasn’t the president used his position to apply public pressure on this?

     

    Taxes:

     

    In the midst of the pandemic, Democrats did achieve one temporarily good thing: expanding the Child Tax Credit and allowing parents to get an advance on it throughout the year. The problem, though, is that this was a one-time change and it expired after 2021. Now, the people have seen their help disappear while the rich continue to enjoy every benefit they have received from the many tax cuts over successive Republican administrations and Congresses. In other words, the people have not seen the benefit of electing Democrats in terms of their taxes, and that’s the fault of Congressional Democrats and President Biden.

     

    The Cost of Living:

     

    While our wages have remained stagnant, union rights have been attacked, and while our tax laws continue to benefit the wealthy, the worst part about this is that the cost of living has only gotten more expensive. Despite the fact that the federal minimum wage has remained the same since 2009 – stuck at $7.50 an hour -, that wage has significantly lost its purchasing power. Inflation by way of price gouging and global shortages has made buying the essentials very painful. Personal debts are growing exponentially, and so are the housing prices.

     

    To their credit, there are members of Congress who have tried to address the price gouging, but the conservatives in Congress continue to stand in their way. Even so, why isn’t President Biden on the campaign trail advocating for action? Why isn’t he harassing the Federal Reserve, demanding that they not raise interest rates? Where is the accountability and the will to fight for the working class?

     

    Climate Change:

     

    Tragically, the greatest betrayal via inaction has come in the form of our pitiful non-response to the existential crisis that is climate change. The scientists have been warning us for decades that this destruction of our own making was going to catch up with us, and here we are. Now, we are starting to witness much of what has been feared, as our greed has wreaked havoc on the only planetary home that we have.

     

    Back in 1997, President Clinton managed to sign us to the Kyoto Protocol, which called for the world to address climate change. Then, George W. Bush immediately withdrew us from that agreement upon entering WashingtonD.C. in 2001. President Obama then agreed to the rather conservative Paris Accords, only for President Trump to wreck that plan as soon as he could.

     

    It can’t be adequately conveyed how much we humans – mostly us Americans – have botched our many chances to prevent climate change. Now, we have passed the point of no return. There is now no reversing what’s coming, because we were too willingly stupid – thanks to our greed – to thwart the consequences of our own actions. Unfortunately, President Biden never campaigned as a strong environmentalist. He was better than Trump, but that was ALWAYS a very low bar.

     

    The near-total lack of action by the Democratic Congress or by President Biden to deal with Climate Change is a direct thumb to the eye of each young generation which will have to live through the madness to come. For shame.

     

    Tonight’s Conclusion

     

    If the next presidential election were held today, I have no doubt in my mind that President Biden would be soundly defeated. The midterm elections this year are not looking any better. On each and every issue, Biden and the Democrats are failing to deliver, and it is a fault of their own making by allowing themselves to sell their so-called souls to the proverbial devil (a.k.a., the wealthy).

     

    I may no longer be a Democrat, but I can see the dangers in letting the Democrats just willfully hand power back to the Republicans without at least trying to win. The Democratic Party is a neoliberal organization corrupted by monied interests, but the Republican Party is a dangerous fascist political organization hell-bent on power and the subjugation of the working class on behalf of the few.

     

    It’s long past time for Democrats to wake up. They are wasting this vital moment in our history to save America, to save democracy, and to save humanity.

     

    Onward.

     

    #NotMeUs #OurRevolution #DemExit

     

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    Until next time…

     

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