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Nick Brana, the national director of the Movement for a People's Party, national political outreach coordinator with Bernie 2016 and founding electoral manager with Our Revolution, spoke to Jimmy Dore, about the current situation in the United States amid COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
Nick Brana, the national director of the Movement for a People's Party, national political outreach coordinator with Bernie 2016 and founding electoral manager with Our Revolution, spoke to Jimmy Dore, about the current situation in the United States amid COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
In one sentence, Brana gives the picture of a completely broken system and the level of its failure:
There is an entire class of society right now that has been designated "expendable". And it's being like an amputation that is being cut off and sacrificed. An entire class, millions of people, they don't have any income, anymore. They were living paycheck to paycheck before this. They have zero savings. And now, they're expected to continue paying for rent and basic necessities? It's abominable.
And inside all this Dystopian Armageddon, progressives capitulated to the neoliberal order, one more time, through this awful bill imposed by the Republicans and the corporate Democrats.
The out-of-touch corporate Dems, like Nancy Pelosi, have now become the Antoinettes of the modern age. And even Trump understands that, and takes advantage of it, despite the fact that he is primarily responsible for this mega middle-finger audacity against the working class. Like a good right-wing demagogue he knows how to play the game.
As David Dayen wrote:
After just a couple weeks of extreme social distancing measures, the Treasury Department asked for a large bailout, this time of the entire corporate sector. The bill as written initially would have made all bailout activities secret for six months. Democrats balked, called it a slush fund and worse, and then agreed to a few mostly meaningless bits of oversight and some promises to help ordinary people. [...] This bill is an outrageous betrayal, a testament to how power works and saves itself. And Congress is about to put itself on the hook for it. Schumer has the Senate under his thumb, and he praised this bill at 2am this morning, so that’s a done deal. Any House member could deny unanimous consent and stop this, but that would require getting to Washington, forcing everyone else back to Washington in the middle of a pandemic, and delay what is needed (if temporary) relief for everyday people. I doubt anyone will do it. Pelosi purposefully put this in place before turning to remote voting to make such an action toxic.
The out-of-touch corporate Dems, like Nancy Pelosi, have now become the Antoinettes of the modern age. And even Trump understands that, and takes advantage of it, despite the fact that he is primarily responsible for this mega middle-finger audacity against the working class. Like a good right-wing demagogue he knows how to play the game.
As David Dayen wrote:
After just a couple weeks of extreme social distancing measures, the Treasury Department asked for a large bailout, this time of the entire corporate sector. The bill as written initially would have made all bailout activities secret for six months. Democrats balked, called it a slush fund and worse, and then agreed to a few mostly meaningless bits of oversight and some promises to help ordinary people. [...] This bill is an outrageous betrayal, a testament to how power works and saves itself. And Congress is about to put itself on the hook for it. Schumer has the Senate under his thumb, and he praised this bill at 2am this morning, so that’s a done deal. Any House member could deny unanimous consent and stop this, but that would require getting to Washington, forcing everyone else back to Washington in the middle of a pandemic, and delay what is needed (if temporary) relief for everyday people. I doubt anyone will do it. Pelosi purposefully put this in place before turning to remote voting to make such an action toxic.
As Richard Wolff put it:
It is so grotesque, it kind of takes your breath away, if you look at the 1,200 dollars, for example, that are going to be sent to taxpayers. The average household income in the United States, is about 60,000 dollars. You break that down weekly, it works out about eleven hundred and fifty bucks. In other words, the checks that you are going to get, after four weeks of being told out that you can't go to work, will barely cover one week worth of you income! This is a joke!
So, here is an idea of how a 21st century barbarism will look like.
Entire populations become irrelevant. The system simply dumps them just
to sustain its perverse dysfunctionality.
What kind of social jungle will arise from the day after the pandemic, especially in neoliberal Dystopias like the United States?
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