The silly season is upon us as November approaches, and the rhetoric from both sides goes from simmer to
boiling. For those of you who still believe that progressives hold the key to righting the ship of state, it appears that train has left the station with
nary a progressive politician onboard. Here’s their message to the faithful.
Read it and weep: “With our support and voice, progressives may persuade and enable President Biden to achieve more progressive policy objectives during his
second term and prevent a fascist takeover.” Wait a minute, wasn’t that his mandate for the first term? As far as the eye can see the Biden foreign policy
gang has managed to destroy Ukraine, is complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and has stirred up a hornet’s nest with its troop deployment within
striking distance of China. At home the situation is equally dire — privatized healthcare making the U.S. the most expensive and least effective healthcare
system in the world, the cost of a college education spiraling out of control ($100,000 annually for some colleges). No surprise then that undergraduate
college enrollment has dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022, with declines even after the pandemic hullabaloo faded. Then there’s 43.2 million students coping with $1.6
trillion of student debt “owed” to a greedy bunch of banks, private equity companies and sadly even their own government. In the richest country in the
world, 38 million Americans are living below the poverty line, the highest overall poverty rate among advanced economies. Adding another notch to their
belt, Americans surpass the rest of the well-to-do world in income inequality. Worse still by early 2023, 14% of U.S. children went to bed hungry. Will a second
Biden administration address these critical problems and many others bedeviling our lives? It seems likely that a second Biden term will only compound the
catastrophic mess of the first —more war, more foreign aid bloopers, littlehelp for the 78% of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck [Payroll.org].
To find out how bad it really is and how the “party of the people” has left true believers out in the cold, check out Progressives Make Merry While Democrats Set the World on Fire.
