So I wrote this poem after learning that not only have the President and Congress been lying to us but the military as well is lying to us. Many of us were already suspicious of the President and Congress. But now we know the military is lying to us as well.
Under these circumstances democracy with a small 'd' cannot function as intended. This is true because The People are given falsehoods in place of accurate information on which to make their decisions. This will inevitably lead them to make choices they had not intended to make. On the basis of false information provided by liars The People are deceived and make choices they think are the right choices that will be good for them. But in the end they discover they've been fooled again.
So the question arises. If the U.S. does not have a society functioning as a democratic republic, (which it claims to be) what kind of government do the American People find themselves with? Another question arises. Are the American People going to do anything about it?
Those are some of the thoughts that inspired the poem. What do you think? The American People were lied into Vietnam, lied into Kuwait and lied into Iraq. What do you think, are you still being lied to now?
America is sick and the entire world knows it. A quick look around at the events happening on a daily basis confirm this assessment. Social dysfunction is normative.
A partial list of social ills follows. Mass shootings, road rage, the 'Karen' phenomenon, gangs of robbers operating with impunity. If that isn't bad enough the corporate Donor Class has promoted public corruption from top to bottom.
Obviously all is far from being well in the U.S. and it seems right that The People tell the Republicans and Democrats to take a hike while 'we the People' fix America up the way we want it. Why don't we do that?
That being said, to criticize Biden (Democratic Party) or to criticize Trump (Republican Party) and vote accordingly is what the American electorate is expected to do. Unfortunately, as it turns out, the Republicans and the Democrats are in large part the cause of the utter chaos American society finds itself in RIGHT NOW.
The history of Americans allowing themselves to be polarized by the Republican and Democratic Parties is manifested in this one brutal statistic. This statistic reveals the actual status of democracy in the U.S. and unfortunately the information exposes the great difference between what American Government says and what it actually does. Most didn't need to be told that something ain't right. Every American should be alarmed at that report.
Are Americans just stuck in a rut? All they have been able to think of is having either the Republicans or the Democrats address the social problems. No one seems to remember at election time that it was Republicans and Democrats that ran America into the ground in the first place.
Republicans and Democrats broke it and, so far, they have demonstrated they are incapable of producing a remedy. The tragic part of this is that they might not even know what it was they did that broke America.
Don't you think it's time to get wise to their inability to manage the economy? If we want to improve the lot of wage earning and other low income or otherwise socially disenfranchised Americans radical changes must be envisioned and carried out by the electorate.
Only Republicans and Democrats had a hand in creating the present situation and they spend their time blaming one another for the current status of society. This results in the voting Citizen suffering the consequences of the Republican and Democrat loyalty to the corporate non-citizen, non-voting Donor Class.
Replacing Republican and Democratic lawmakers with socially responsible lawmakers is the only sensible option. This would require a third Party with completely different characteristics than possessed by either Republicans or Democrats.
Lo and behold there is such a Party! It's name is The People's Party. The People's Party would be the only real alternative to a future of more of the same failures which Republicans and Democrats have produced since the days of Harry Truman.
This dismal moment in American life and the arduous path to this moment portend a future no one wants to face. The majority of inequity in American society is the result of the relationship between our lawmakers and the non-citizen, non-voting corporate Donor Class. Neither the Republicans or the Democrats will stop taking money from these sources and that is why Republicans and Democrats can only be a thorn in the side of those who desire a representative democracy.
An elected representative cannot serve the non-citizen, non-voting corporate Donor Class and the Citizen Voter faithfully at the same time. The State religion, Christianity agrees. It simply cannot be done. The representative will favor one over the other meaning one (corporate donor or voting Citizen) will have an advantage over the other. In America the way it works out is that the non-citizen, non-voting corporate Donor Class is first in line and gets the lion's share of government handouts. That practice is the root of societies biggest injustice.
The voting Citizen is now obligated to live in a society that is self destructing as I type and you read. That is not the way it should be, it's not the way we want it to be. It is an example of Republicans and Democrats governing.
Heads up. A worthwhile government promotes the general welfare. But Republicans and Democrats are not onboard with that agenda, neither can they be. The reason is that it would require the corporate Donor Class to pay taxes in lieu of donating to elected representatives of the American People.
The Republican and Democratic Parties on behalf of the corporate Donor Class have tag teamed the U.S. electorate for as long as I've been alive. In that time society has been in continual decline as a result. The New Deal was a good deal as long as it lasted.
But the rejuvenating effects lasted at most from it's beginning in the Great Depression until the 70's. In the early 70's the oil producing nations joined together to hold the U.S. hostage by refusing to deliver oil on demand.
For one reason or another the U.S. governed by Republicans and Democrats agreed and caved in to them. Today price for gasoline is as high as $4 a gallon in the U.S. instead of .36 cents a gallon. The oil embargo ruined our economy and the Republicans and the Democrats cooperated and let them get away with it without so much as sending a fleet of ships with a message.
The bottom line is Republicans and Democrats are not able to do more than make things worse. That's about all they've done so far! The present moment in the U.S. is the result of all their labors on behalf of the American People.
Don't you think it is time to say "Thanks, but no thanks" and check out what The People's Party has in mind? I bet if 'we the People put our heads together we could come up with some much needed improvements right away.
How does a living wage that allows you to enjoy society sound to you? How about paid healthcare? How does free higher education and affordable comfortable housing as a mainstay of a political platform sound?
Is such a platform worth supporting? How many Republicans and Democrats are promoting those programs? Why would you support a political Party that is indebted to the non-voting, non-citizen corporate Donor Class instead of you?
According to the rules of democratic movements 'we the people' can make the kind of society we choose for ourselves. Take a look around, is this what you hope to achieve? Probably not, but it is the result of electing Republicans and Democrats to do a job they are ideologically unable to perform. I bet 'we the People' can do a lot better than Republicans and Democrats have managed so far.
(Editor's note. I am not associated with The People's Party other than finding their agenda to be 'just what the doctor ordered' for what ails American society today. I mention them only as an alternative I myself would choose if I were attempting to set American society on the right path.)
I wrote the poem while considering the oft repeated claim that the U.S. is a Christian Nation. The highlighted links refer to the documents that reveal the Christian faith and the principles of the Kingdom of God Jesus spent his life promoting. The principles are recorded in Bible verses which you can read when you click on the link. After reading the verses you can judge for yourself how the U.S. measures up to the standards of the Christian faith and decide whether or not it is a Christian Nation.
The State of Georgia may have made a serious blunder if Jesus turns out to be real. You may have heard, Georgia forbids helping hungry and thirsty people eat and drink on certain days of the year. A new law has been made in Georgia to penalize persons who give water and food to those who need to eat and drink on the days helping hungry and thirsty people is disallowed.
Now the problem for Georgia is that Jesus expressly condemns the behavior the State of Georgia has made into law. He does not mince his words. The punishment Jesus will mete out to those who engage in that behavior would make General Sherman or even George Bush blush. What did Jesus say would be the fate of those who do such things to those in need of food and water?
We don't have to wonder because it's in the Bible, in fact it is one of the Bible's central teachings. Jesus had already addressed, in the 1st century, what the lawmakers in Georgia in the 21st century decided to do. At that time Jesus prescribed the consequences of their decision revealing what the outcome would be. Matthew 25: 31- 46 is where Jesus lays down the law and the consequences for breaking His Law.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal
I'm surprised the lawmakers in Georgia are not up to respecting the opinion of Jesus on this matter. Do they doubt the words or the intent of Jesus? Times have changed and I guess I shouldn't be surprised. But I am. Those lawmakers in Georgia must feel as if they can take Jesus on and win.
A decade or two ago Georgia was in the Bible Belt where Jesus and the Bible were revered. But times have changed and the Georgia lawmakers are proving that they are not going to be buffaloed by old superstitions the way their forbears were. They've told Jesus what they think of His Law and now it's up to Jesus to keep his word.
The Georgia courts are very likely going to have to put Jesus in jail when he begins feeding the hungry and giving water to the thirsty on those days when it is illegal to do so. I understand he's used to being mistreated by secular governments and that he, like Henry Thoreau, never let that get in his way of doing the right thing. You might have imagined the State of Georgia would have thought twice about taking on Jesus, but that's just what the lawmakers there have done. Obviously Jesus and his teaching never entered into their considerations when they made their special law forbidding the feeding of the hungry and the thirsty. Have a nice day! And the next time someone says the U.S. is a Christian nation tell them about Georgia.
The last sentence of the four year dialogue Donald Trump has had with America came to an end with the words "Stop The Steal". Immediately afterward there was an assault on the Capitol with the intent of overturning the election by mob coercion.
If you're an American you may be thinking: 'No way, that can't be true. Not in the United States'. But it is! Under Trump's guiding hand it surely is true. I have to believe Donald Trump regards the constitution with complete contempt.
From the beginning of it's tenure the Trump Administration's dialogue was racist, and anti-environment. He was opposed to having non-white people from what he termed 'shithole' countries find refuge in America. His words gave his followers the liberty to allow their racist feelings to be given expression. His words made the entire world look at America and ask: "WTF"?
Even so he is still admired by his supporters, while others hate him more with every passing day. His juvenile resistance to face masks, science and common sense has made him a danger to every person living within the borders of the U.S. From my point of view, 2000 plus Americans are now dying daily as a direct result of Donald Trump's response at the advent of the COVID outbreak. I'm not the only American that feels this way. That's one of the reasons Donald Trump is being impeached yet again today, January 13, 2021.
I'd like to contrast Trump's way of relating to the American public during times of great national stress with the way Franklin Roosevelt did during the Great Depression and WW2.
It's too soon to have forgotten Trump's obvious attempts to radicalize his followers and divide the nation. He has used race-baiting to cause division. He has used the COVID outbreak to divide the nation into mask-less Trump supporters who deny there is a threat from the pandemic from those who believe the science and fear for their safety. Donald Trump's Presidency will be remembered for all those things.
I was born during the Truman Administration so I don't remember FDR's radio talks to the nation. But my parents were married during the roaring 20's and before a decade had passed saw all hope vanish overnight. There was a long slog through the Great Depression and then came the second world war in their lifetime. From the beginning of the Great Depression Americans were hung out to dry by the Republican Hoover Administration. Nothing has changed in that regard. Republicans ARE NOT the friends of Main Street America.
President Hoover was a true conservative Republican, so naturally he did absolutely nothing as the nation collapsed into a despairing hopeless condition. He just sat there in classic Republican fashion and looked on and did nothing. Roosevelt had the answer and that solution worked.
Not only did his solution work but his words had an inspiring, unifying effect that gave the nation hope. My mother and father both told me of the positive, unifying, comforting, uplifting effect of Roosevelt's radio speeches to the nation. No one can say that with a straight face about the conversation Donald Trump has been having with the nation over the past few years.
Did you listen to Roosevelt's talks to the nation? Do you see the difference between faithful leadership and a callous, uncaring mutiny by the head of state when you compare Roosevelt with Trump? That difference is the reason Americans will be Dancing In The Streetswhen Donald Trump is no longer President.
I've never been as surprised as I am now. All the kings horses and all the kings minions can't put Trumpty Dumpty together again. After this moment in American History anything that resembles Trumpty Dumpty will be considered anti American. It's been a wild 5 years from start to finish. We began with MAGA, 'Make America Great Again'. It's ending with LUDT, 'Lock Up Donald Trump'. The 'Tide of Democracy' has changed.
In case you've been recently awakened from a coma you KNOW the President took an unprecedented stand against the idea of democracy. He did this by encouraging crowds of angry, revolutionary-minded (for the most part) white people by instigating them to overthrow the decision of Congress to officiate in recognizing Joe Biden as the President Elect.
Those angry white people trashed the legislative center of the nation in support of Donald Trump's plan to make America Great again. They paraded through the nerve center of American freedom like Sherman through Georgia but they carried the Confederate Flag.
You don't need a news commentator to explain what that symbolism means and the kind of America Trump wants for us all.
Senator Romney was surprised to witness the President's most recent behavior as well myself and a good number of others. He shared his thoughts with his fellow Americans on the President's attempt to overthrow the legally elected government of the United States. There's video of him doing this provided by the Global News YouTube channel.
Americans have seen a failed attempted coup by Donald Trump and his revolutionary guard. His would be revolutionaries must feel as if he has made chumps of them all when he encouraged them to break Federal Laws.
Now they have to pay for what they ended up doing. He convinced them to commit acts of sedition and insurrection which they willingly and gleefully engaged in. Who's sorry now? "If the President said to do it, that makes it legal." That's the law in Trumplandia.
Some have compared this attempt at overthrowing the Government of the United States to the events of "9 / 11". I think they were referring to a renewed sense of patriotism which is expected at times like this.
When I witnessed the lack of response by the police charged with protecting democracy at its source (the Capitol) I was also reminded of 9 / 11 and the response of those we trusted in at that time.
On both instances there was a similar lack of response from those charged with protecting WE THE PEOPLE. On both occasions when WE THE PEOPLE needed it most we were let down by those we trusted most. Why do those we trust fail us when we need them most? We had better find an answer to that question if we know what's good for us.
This has been a coup attempt with a 'whiff of bullshit'. It looks as if Trump's Folly might have failed... for the time being. Let us pray that we will immediately recognize when the Trump Philosophy raises it's ugly head again in some other format so we can nip it in the bud instead of letting it grow and bear fruit as we have done. Trump and the Republican Party had 4 years to make America great. How would you rate the job they did?
Something to spend part of the day thinking about.
I wrote the poem below after thinking about what I had seen in the news about how President Trump rewards his faithful servants with the best possible healthcare THAT IS NOT MADE AVAILABLE to the general public.
In my poem I ask the obvious question: "Why do some get the good medicine and some don't?" The poem reveals the obvious answer is in two parts. 1. Political favoritism or 2. the lack of being politically favored become the obvious reasons a few get the treatment that works or the reason that many just suffer. This conclusion is justified on the basis the President knew from the beginning how dire the situation was and how high the stakes were. The rest is history "It is what it is".
The world is watching to see if the Trump / Republican Coup attempt will be successful. I personally hope it fails. Democracy and liberty are being weighed in the balances by American politicians right now. It is not something the Average American has ever considered could, or would, happen. But Trump changed everything and now we are seeing an attempted coup right before our very eyes. The Young Turks Cenk Uygur has some commentary that inspired the poem below.
The terrible problem Americans are facing is that those supporting President Trump are not fans of the Voting Class of Americans. The in your face facts have been that in this time of great trouble Republicans and Democrats have been less than useless and decidedly harmful to the wellbeing of the residents of Main Street America.
Politically powerful members of the Republican Party are doing all they can to subvert the voting process and pervert the outcome of the election. That is what an attempted coup looks like to outside observers. In the meantime Democrats have been as useless as the Republicans have been harmful.
This leaves me wondering if Americans have accepted that this is the way it must be and will just give up and let it get worse and worse until all hope is a pleasant memory we once took comfort in.
The effects of the President refusing to accept the verdict of THE PEOPLE has left many Americans asking how they could have been bamboozled to the point of considering giving up the democratic republic created by the writers of the constitution to be ruled by the whims of a man like Donald Trump.
Having nearly 50 percent of the American electorate willing to dispose of the democratic process in favor of a big mouthed braggart has left the community of nations shaking it's collective head in disbelief. Whether the majority of Americans want a representative form of government is a question waiting to be answered.
How much of the last four years has been on the up and up? If we can take William Casey at his word, the words 'Mission Accomplished' fit the mood and mind of the Republican and Democratic created status quo. If you're not bewildered from trying to make sense of what's happening you have not been paying attention.
Americans have been run through the ringer and hung out to dry by the complicity of the Republican and Democratic Parties. Neither one of these Parties behaved as if the vitality of democracy was something that concerned them as they went about their duties during the Trump Administration.
Both the Republicans and the Democrats agreed to help the Wall Street class and dump on Main Street. The decision of Republicans and Democrats to turn their back on Main Street and let average Americans suffer in order to keep Wall Street profits high holds many lessons. Have the American People learned those lessons?
One lesson that can be garnered from the past four years is that Republican and Democratic lawmakers are not producing the help needed by the Average American during the COVID crisis. They have shown themselves to be good at lying and finger pointing and not much else when it comes to making life easier on Main Street.
Average Americans need living wage jobs, healthcare, education, a place to live, safe workplaces and a government of elected representatives that responds to the needs of the Voting Class without having to have their arms twisted.
We've seen, throughout this four year ordeal, that the Republican and Democratic Parties have acted in concert seeing to it that the suffering of the American People continued unabated. Escaping responsibility for the condition of American society is not possible for them because it has been Republican and Democratic lawmakers making ALL THE DECISIONS. Therefore they hold all the responsibility for the present condition Americans find themselves in.
With the consequences of the last four years of Republican and Democratic malfeasance there has arisen from the hearts of the American People the desire for a government that exists to benefit the Average American.
The American People have begun to question why they have a government that treats them this way. They are not content with what the Republicans and the Democrats have done to them. Americans are asking why their government is not responsive to their needs. The answer many arrive at is that Republicans and Democrats simply have another agenda and other more pressing concerns than the needs of average working class American voters.
The solution some Americans are considering is a THIRD PARTY. A Party with a pro-human agenda. A Party that would require that the resources of the nation serve the People of the nation. This Party would represent human beings rather than the non-voting Donor Class that is the special concern of Republican and Democratic lawmakers. This Third Party would make real the promises a democratic republic makes. This would be a truly revolutionary Party.
What do you think Americans will do? Will they keep things the way they are? Or will they decide they've had enough and make the necessary changes?
As a result of the President going around the nation encouraging the spread of COVID by the assembling of mass gatherings I made a video from art I made earlier. We are not suffering only from COVID. We are suffering as well from Trump's anti-human economic and social policies,
I put together a series of images I created that were impressed on me by the spectacle of the President's behavior. My thoughts were moderated by the thoughts in the Old Testament book of Job.
"Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause":Job Chapter 5: 1-8.
The book of Job fascinates me. I'm amazed at the literary quality of the story written long ago during the bronze age. The plot and the theme are worthy of current consideration. The dramatic work J.B. is an example of such a consideration from the near past.
The theme of Job presents a story that seeks to come to grips with existence in the face of existence seemingly seeking to exterminate Job. Since Job represents the human condition by that token the story of Job represents the condition of you and me as well.
You would not want to be in Job's shoes, but in a sense our condition is not much better. Job was left sitting in a pile of ashes scraping boils that covered his entire body. While he was doing this his 'friends' spent their time trying to convince him that his problems were his own damned fault and that he had better shape up or else!
On top of that Job had a wife who urged him to kill himself to avoid suffering.
Job's sentiments in all of this are summed up in the following words. Job 19:25-27
"For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me."
With the chaos in the U.S caused by Donald Trump's policies, asking "what the hell is going on, why is existence doing this to us?" is a question everyone should find an answer to.
When compared with what we've seen so far between Trump and Biden, Presidential debates in the past reveal vast differences in decorum and candidate behavior between then until now.
I took a look back at the Kennedy / Nixon debate and then the current election years Trump / Biden 'debate'. Both debates are complete. The difference between the two is astonishing isn't it? (Both debates at highlighted links.)
What happened between the time of Kennedy and Trump to transform the Presidential debates from a serious production with serious contestants discussing solutions to world problems into a side show? We saw something very different in the so called Trump /Biden 'debate' than what we saw in the Kennedy / Nixon debate.
The Trump / Biden 'debate' resembled an argument between two senile residents in a geriatric community confronting one another over an old dispute from high school. I was sickened at the sight. And then the President and his staff come down with COVID...or so they want you to believe.
What differences did you make note of between the two debates and the four contestants? Which debate seemed more appropriate to a debate between two men seeking the office of President of the United States? Which one made you ask yourself: "What the hell is going on?" In the Trump / Biden 'debate' I thought the President behaved like an unruly high school student who needed to be sent to the principal's office.
Kennedy inspired the creation of the Peace Corps and introduced the nation to the space age following the Soviet Union's lead. The Soviet Union was the first in space and the space race was on. History flowing from the Kennedy Administration reminds us of those things.
From Trump's history we know of one business failure after another from Mr. Trump. If his Administration has inspired anyone it is not the current generation which is facing a collapsing, polluted and unhealthy eco-system in which to reproduce and raise their young. Who has Trump inspired?Oh yeah he inspired the Michigan 13. What kind of a future does that inspiration portend?
Questions for the reader:
1. What do you think America will be like if Trump remains President?
During the contentious period of the 1960's America was involved in losing a long protracted war with the small nation of Vietnam far away from American shores. The period was contentious because the war was an illegal war and American teenagers were being forced against their will to fight the war.
In the end over 58,000 Americans, average age close to 19, died waging this war. During that period Pete Seeger sang a song the censors didn't like. "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy" finally made it to TV on a popular socially conscious variety program, The Smothers Brothers. that was subsequently canceled because of its social commentary.
So now that you've listened to the song you can see Americans in the 21st century are waist deep, neck deep, almost over our head in another 'Big Muddy' and once again the Big Fool is saying "push on."
If all we are being told about the President's health and those around him is true we're in deep trouble. It means the President, as demonstrated by his behavior and rhetoric, doesn't care if WE THE PEOPLE live or die. He is fully aware of the deadliness of the virus and yet his public behavior is telling people to ignore the proper health precautions.
The heads of the military are all in quarantine meaning our military response is in one way or another restricted. The President is responsible for this. The President is denying reality as the second wave of the COVID pandemic sweeps across the states. America is in deep trouble if this trajectory is not altered. Why is the President behaving so dangerously and erratically?
If the internal threat to domestic welfare and tranquility poised by the virus and the President were not enough there is the threat of White Supremacist violence. The Trump Administration has embraced this ideology and has emboldened his base to accept violence and heavy handedness as the proper way to govern. Trump has done this while denying a White Supremacist threat is real. In doing so he's, in effect, calling the investigators liars or dummies. He's ignoring the warning the way Bush did.
I am reminded of the G.W. Bush Administration which also ignored intelligence about national security issues. By doing so Bush allowed the WTC Buildings to be demolished by Saudi Arabian funded criminals. We still haven't won the war he started over that, but we're still providing him his pension and healthcare.
My question for you is this. Will Trump's refusal to acknowledge a national security threat from his White Supremacist base as well as the COVID virus lead to an all out race war and societal devastation in the same way as the willingness of George Bush to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING lead to the demolition of the WTC by foreign nationals and a war still going on in one way or another to this very day?
The reader may have noticed that America has been acting more strangely than ever during the Administration of Donald Trump. I think this is because the Republican Party in partnership with Donald Trump has sold us out to the highest bidders and the Democratic Party has stood there saying 'Yes sir, yes sir,' like a eunuch in the court of the king.
The madcap display of a COVID infected President riding the crest of a steroid high telling the American people to stay strong and beat the virus is about the greatest insult to decency this Administration has committed. SO FAR.
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By the time the debate had ended 7 beers had been consumed. I was numb, not from the beer. I was numb from thinking about the consequences of the spectacle I had just witnessed. Watch it in full here.
I had seen two adults wishing to be President behaving like a couple of high school punks in a school yard arguing. Sophomores at that. This display was their attempt to win votes. It's experiences like this that turn the American mind into silly putty.
Donald Trump and his White Christian Nationalist agenda has a real chance of being the direction the U.S. chooses. Democracy Now report. If that happens the entire world is imminently imperiled.
The other candidate, Joe Biden is not the solution to the problems of Americans on Main Street. Biden is the solution to the problems facing the Wall Street status quo. Biden, however, can be a 'plug' in the hole Trump has drilled in the Ship of State. Biden can put out the fires Trump has started, but he WILL sell us out in the long term because of his loyalties to corporate profits. For now Biden is America's life boat that we need to get to shore.
Being allowed to have only these two candidates to choose from is hardly able to be called self-determination when there are so many different points of view which are not included. For instance economic ideas like Socialism and Marxism are anathema in current political discussion. However the problems of Americans trying to scratch out a living on Main Street are an indication that there needs to be new managers in charge of the economy and we have only thought in Capitalist terms up to the present moment when it comes to managing the economy.
Teachers like Richard Wolff have proven that Americans are ready to re-consider whether or not they want to change how the economy is managed. I'm ready, how about you?
