Sorry if I seem a little dark this week, but Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign.
Although this isn't surprising, it's nonetheless both discouraging and encouraging. Of course, we wanted to see Bernie take it all the way the DNC convention this summer, as he did in 2016; but even though it isn't going to happen, he won the ideological debate. No matter what happens from here on in, Bernie changed the political trajectory in this country. He made Joe Biden a better candidate, and hopefully we will do our part to make him a better president--starting right now! We cannot wait another minute. We need to put wind in Biden's sails immediately or the uphill battle to get 45 out is going to be even more challenging. Bernie would have been harder to beat.
I get into the disgusting display of Republican perfidy that played out in Wisconsin this week when the Republican-majority state supreme court overturned the governor's executive order to postpone the presidential primary, which a federal court subsequently upheld.
Then the monarchs on the United States Supreme Court got involved, siding with the Wisconsin GOP, exposing voters to the coronavirus.
Make no mistake: this is a test-run for November, especially since there has been serious discussion lately about nationwide mail-in paper ballots.
Republicans can't win unless they cheat.
Even Donald Trump admitted as much last week during an interview with Fox & Friends when he stated it was good increased voting protections and ballot access proposals were omitted from the coronavirus relief package because “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
Hey, you know what? A broken clock is right twice a day.
Speaking of coronavirus, hospitals and medical staffing agencies are slashing pay and firing doctors and nurses for speaking out about lack of protective equipment (PPE).
But that's not stopping those for-profit businesses from expecting a little government handout.
Socialism is the supposed antithesis of Democracy--until the wealthy and corporations responsible for driving the capitalist car into a ditch need a little help. Then they have no problem with it. (As long as they don't call it the "S" word.)
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