The
global coronavirus/Covid19 pandemic and its simultaneous revealing of how
utterly incompetent the political establishment is and how utterly insufficient
the patchwork of private health insurance is in the United States compared/contrasted
with the rest of the world’s nations is both an appalling indictment and call
for significant structural changes within the political economy of U.S. society.
That
most of the developed world is able to better care for their citizens, limiting
the spread of Covid19 and providing monthly economic relief to the citizenry
while the United States has barely begun to enact measures that are meant to
limit the spread of the virus, with the measures being limited to the State level
and to those States’ whose Governor’s have chosen to take the pandemic seriously
as the Trump White House can only be bothered to pretend to care about it when
it personally affects Trump's reelection campaign and financial interests is pointing towards the United States creeping ever closer to "shit-hole" and failed state status.
That
the relief bill has focused more upon establishing a slush fund for Wall Street
corporations and a paltry one-time check to some citizens while Trump and his personality
cult’s followers have been talking about reopening the economy even if this
entails the deaths of millions of the elderly and vulnerable, at-risk individuals,
and packing Churches for Easter during the time-frame of the pandemic’s projected
peak in the United States, illustrates very clearly that these right-wing
sociopaths care very little about human life, despite their constant propaganda
about pro-life hysteria and delusional death-panels invented to attack the
Affordable Care Act, and are more than willing to sacrifice millions of lives
at the alter of their capitalist market god.
Nothing better illustrates the
absolute necessity in nominating Bernie Sanders for the Democratic candidate
for President as he and his campaign staffers and supporters are nearly the
only political leaders actually leading during this crisis. Sander’s prescient warning in 2005 about a potential
pandemic and the need for adequate preparedness as well as Medicare-for-All
demonstrably proves that he has maintained the correct positions and is the
most capable political leader contending for the Presidency.
The
Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Campaign is the best opportunity to not only defeat Trump
but to also construct a stable foundation for long overdue structural changes and
progress in the social fabric of the United States’ political economy that has since
the neoliberal assault, conspicuously aggressive under Reagan, strangled improvements
in the lives of the middle and working classes, the precariat, that has yet to
realize the minimum wage increasing in relation to inflation and productivity
growth since 1968.
It
has been recognized by a bipartisan group of political operatives and observers
that Bernie Sanders would’ve defeated Trump decisively in 2016 had the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) not rigged the primaries in Hilary Clinton’s
favor. That the DNC has already adjusted
the primary rules to allow the former Republican billionaire mayor Bloomberg to
begin joining the Democratic primary debates is significant evidence that the
DNC is yet still partisan to the corporate, alleged centrist elements of the
Democratic party and remains hostile to legitimate progressive candidates and
policies such as Bernie Sanders and his positions.
Without
the sort of egregious election interference witnessed in 2016, Bernie Sanders
is well positioned to be elected the Democratic Presidential nominee and then
the President of the United States in the general election. Everyone must do everything within their
power to ensure that the next President is Bernie Sanders. There is no predicting when we will ever have
such a good chance to depart from the single business party politics and
elections of the ultra-right-wing Republicans and Republican-lite Democrats
that have waged a bipartisan assault on the middle and working classes and
ushered into existence one of the most disparate wealth inequalities since the
robber barons and the roaring 20s preceding the Great Depression. Any vote for one of the remaining centrist, right-wing candidates, such as the right-wing Biden, is an implicit vote for Trump. Let’s see to a President Sanders and a blunting of the extreme class war being fought by the single business party with its two slightly different factions.
