Thursday, March 26, 2020

The Coronavirus/Covid19 Pandemic and Bernie Sanders for 2020 President


            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.     

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