ELECTION 2020: Regression as a National Theme

Lawrence Davidson reflects on Trump’s High-Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and a reactionary tide in the U.S., since the Reagan era, that is hitting a new high-water mark.

[consortiumnews.com]

Davidson is one of those I don't quite see eye to eye with at times. But he makes some good points in this one. Lets go.

{I use the words “another step” because, in multiple different forms, this slippage has been going on for a while. It started with President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) and his confused idea that the problem with American society — a society of now over 300 million people, a poverty rate of at least 10.5 percent, no mandated health insurance, a place where national and state regulations were the only thing standing between the citizen and environmental degradation, an unhealthy workplace and economic instability — was the size and intrusive nature of the federal government.}

I just mentioned this in the Johnstone post as a reference there also. But keep the healthcare statement in mind.

{Certainly, if Biden wins the presidency and the Democrats also win both houses of Congress, the potential for forward movement on all the issues mentioned above becomes possible. However, it is not guaranteed.

Joe Biden’s present slogan of “Make America America Again” can mean just about anything, but it seems not to imply making the nation more progressive than it was, say, under President Barack Obama.}

You might remember Obama came into a power structure with the pleasure of a 3 house democratic rule. I don't know about anyone else's memory, but mine goes back to a 2 year period where the democrats squandered those 2 years getting absolutely nothing out of them. Compared to the last 2 years while Trump only has the senate he's managed to get the democrats to hand over DC to him on a golden plate. This guy has a rainbow cock from all the democrats sucking up to about every whim he's had as all we got was air from the lip service. “Make America America Again” will basically add up to "Yes We Can" when it came to Obama's change. No we can't. !No, I don't want that America again! Obama progressive!?! I must have slept through that. More like aggressive. More so than Bush Jr. And Davidson must have slept through Obama's war on progressive movement in 2016 and 2020. Healthcare? It's coming.

{Under Obama there was moderate progress on the issue of health care and the country was dragged out of yet another Republican-facilitated recession.}

There we go. Progress for whom? Is this the progressiveness he speaks of? When you take off the backs of the working middle class to pay for others healthcare and the incomes/bonuses for corporate lords isn't my idea of progressive, it's redistribution. In case anyone missed this, everyone's healthcare cost went drastically up. And it has been going up ever since. And those who were dropped from employer programs got zapped the hardest. And it divided us for nearly 3 years until those who missed this criminal scheme got caught up to the facts about those who got zapped. And here's where socialism is acceptable with our establishment. Bailing out the ruling class when they create recessions so large the market collapses. Key words there are establishment and they. In contrast to Davidson's finger pointing at the republicans both parties played a roll in this. He slept through the Clinton era?

Ok we get get back to a sense of reality now from Davidson. Even though I don't see Trump as having been an "opposite" for the long-established political rules. The rules have been well taken care of, especially with several trillion being handed out since the start of 2020. Wars and killing sanctions despite the fake disapproval of intelligence agencies going on. And the perception management of foreign governments interfering in our elections. All seems on parr to me.

{Epidemic diseases can spur medical progress. The outbreaks of viral epidemics such as MERS, AIDS and now Covid-19 have encouraged treatment research for virus infections and vaccine development. Again, it is death and debilitation that moves things forward at an accelerated rate.}

Well that was a short lives sense of reality! How many deaths were allowed before any type of serious concern went into Aids!?! !and there still isn't any serious concern to this virus! Accelerate that god dam it.