Posted on 03/24/2020 3:54:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In the past few weeks, all notion of what’s politically and economically realistic has gone out the window in the face of the fast-spreading coronavirus and the accompanying economic collapse this pandemic will certainly bring. To protect lives and livelihoods, governments around the world are taking measures that would have been treated as unaffordable or even impossible just last month.
We must respond to COVID-19 in a way that centers the most vulnerable people in our society, many of whom are also at highest risk from the virus. However, we also need to think about how we come out of this crisis: Do we simply revive the status quo once the virus is cured, or do we take this opportunity to build a society that refocuses on improving the lives of the vulnerable instead of the wealthy, and deals with the threat of the climate crisis barreling toward us?
Crises have been the catalyst for better societies in the past. In Sweden, the Spanish flu of 1918 was part of the justification for the welfare state they’re known for today. In the United Kingdom, the end of World War II brought the election of the Labour Party, which implemented the single-payer, government-run National Health Service. Even in the United States, it was in the aftermath of the Great Depression that President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the New Deal after being pushed by labor, a surging left and grassroots groups across the country. The same can happen today.
With the restrictions of false political realism out the window, we now need to ask ourselves whether we’re willing to accept the harms and inequities that we’ve become so used to, or seize this opportunity to address them once and for all. The decision should be an easy one.
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"They"? The nitwit suffers from multiple personality disorder.
He goes by the pronoun “they”.
Instead of trying to combat things like coronavirus and other things the world may encounter, our colleges and universities are teaching things like that. He’s definitely a “they.”
Thanks for the background on Marx.
State by state deaths (which can be easily fudged,,,attributed to CoVid-19 divided by cases ...which can be easily fudged...attributed to CoVid-19) or deaths divided by population of that state. Do that math. STAT. SHUT DOWN A NATION PROPAGANDA SUPER SPREADERS.
LARGEST PSYOPS in world history. Should be open season on ‘rats and propagandists for the damage they have done, the anxiety, stress and destruction they have caused.
President Trump either reads The List of Demands by the Democrats in the stimulus bill or he will lose the argument. There are not enough media Outlets to give this the correct coverage of what it is. Nobody will ever know what is in it and I don’t care how artificially angry McConnell gets from the senate floor. That is all fake. We will have more rights taken away from us if President Trump does not read The List of Demands at one of his press conferences. A digital dollar are you kidding me that is how they will take every bit of money away from us whenever they want. And that is how storing hundred dollar bills in 20s and keeping cash becomes illegal.
He should be happy to learn to become an actual essential “worker”.
NBC is COMCAST and an American enemy more dangerous than Russia or Iran
Comcast must be destroyed
This guy is truly living up to his name, and DOWN to his humanity!
Somehow,maybe I’m too old, I figure “Marx” is not “Paris Marx” family name at birth. Hell, maybe his birth first name is not Paris. There is a long history of and about Marxism that tie the international Left and Paris together.
They are always agog with the prospects of applying communism properly to USA.
Of course, never realizing it has been applied correctly every time it has been implemented.
The all powerful central state demands obedience. It does not allow dissent. You Max will be a cog..a tool of the state..even more than you are now..but with a large cut in your current pay.
And as long as you tow the line and say glowing things about the state (the leader) you might be allowed to keep your job.
Yes, he’s gay Jim.
And much more susceptible to getting any disease than normal people.
“He goes by the pronoun ‘they’.”
That’s interesting.
Does he believe he’s followed around by imps and gnomes?
Sounds like the inside of his head needs to be scrubbed down with bleach and Brillo pads at a psychiatric hospital.
GAYDAR is melting down.
No, we must focus on solutions that do the greatest good for the greatest number. So step down from your self-congratulatory virtue pedestal and stop pretending you're noble or altruistic. Or that you even care about these "vulnerable people" except as useful tools to acquire more power.
Your "party of the little guy" rhetoric is belied by the wealth and greed of your leaders. It has rung hollow since at least the Kennedy dynasty.
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