Wednesday February 26, 2020
249 Days until the election on November 3rd
329 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
The moment of truth is nigh. For decades Bernie has been saying the same thing. The question now is “Do You Want It?”
Affordable health care, Affordable education, Good jobs, a Living wage.
That’s what he’s suggesting we as a country do.
The neigh sayers are screaming “Socialist.” We crossed that bridge a long time ago. The question is< “Do you want the government to regulate capitalist enterprises so they can’t gouge the shit out of you?”
Socialism in the sense that Bernie is talking about is using our tax dollars to help us. The “capitalists” who are lobbying our government all the time are really socialists. Socialists for themselves. In other words they want the government to either give them money or not tax them or to let them have special exemptions and privilege.
The fear that the pundit have is that he, Bernie, can’t pull it off. The politicians are screaming he’s too far left. He ain’t left. Since the 1980s the conservatives have been moving the frame of our political discourse to the right. What Bernie is trying to do is move us back to the center, to reality.
Bernie isn’t my first choice, but he’s posing a question that is hard to ignore. It is before us and the question now is, “Will we help ourselves?”
249 Days until the election on November 3rd
329 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
PS The Tablet of the Foliated Cross, Palenque, Mexico.
Not that it has anything to do with the subject at hand, but it’s really cool.
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