of so much power that the very existence of the new centimillionaire and billionaire classes is incompatible with democracy of, by and for the people.
But the various proposals for sacking that 0.1% to pay for huge new programs are adding up to a lot more than they can cover, or that we could cover with their-now-our wealth in good time.
Let's remember little issues like the coming mass unemployment as jobs continue to disappear. Hillary knew we needed some kind of universal basic income (never knew why Sanders rejected addressing that problem at that time, probably wants something bigger and more...universal). But we're running out of time.
How about retooling to fight the climate crisis? Much of those costs will be borne by business and individuals, but also huge amounts by government. Between the need to change almost everything we depend on for life and wellbeing and to rebuild better after every disaster, that alone threatens to impoverish our nation if not addressed very, very intelligently. A great opportunity to build better than ever for an era of unprecedented prosperity, or fail dreadfully.
The rest of our crumbling infrastructure anyone?
And all this while the Republicans have deliberately emptied our national piggybank and deliberately put us extremely deep in debt. We have to triage our crises, critical needs, and desirable improvements, hopefully using our lemons for to make lemon pies for all as FDR's generations did.
And in the meantime we have to watch out for extremists on the right who think what we need is a wealth-drive hierarchical society with an authoritarian boot on our necks and those on the left want to make us far more permanently "equal" than anyone ever wants to be -- both agreeing we handle freedom poorly and need others to take a great deal of that burden off us.
Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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