The pandemic stimulus bill is just commonsense in my view. Right now, it is worth about $1.9 trillion. When you have people facing evictions, illness, poverty, and other forms of emotional suffering, investments has to be made to assist our fellow Americans. This situation refutes laissez faire capitalism once and for all, because in times of crisis the free market alone will never magically improve the economic situation. You need some intervention in the economy of the world to help save lives literally. The virus doesn't discriminate. It has harmed people of every background, folks of every color, and human beings of every income level (like disproportionately black people, elderly, and other people of color including the poor). Therefore, states and local communities deserve resources to build up infrastructure, to help hospitals, to help grow necessary businesses, and to fight back against poverty. The discovery of Andrew Cuomo (who is the Governor of New York state) downplaying the numbers of the elderly passing away at nursing homes (in New York) is truly abysmally wrong on the Governor of NY's part. That is why people want an independent federal investigation to decipher what is going on. Also, with the virus variants, we certainly have to be careful and do our part of advancing legitimate safety.
The disgraceful Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin tried to minimize the U.S. Capitol riots. The truth is that this mob murdered police officers, destroyed property, and said racial slurs against black police officers. The terrorists have stormed the Capitol to try to stop a legal election certification. Many people in Congress feared for their lives. This was stirred up by Trump and his supporters for years. Many Trump supporters have threatened progressives and members of Congress for a long time. The terrorists came about to seek to harm and kill Congresswomen and Congressmen. Police officers were begging the terrorists to not end their lives. Multiple guns, ammunition, and other weapons were seized from the rioters. Also, far right militias collaborated to organize and execute the terrorist insurrection. Johnson's comments represent the horrendous mentalities of many Republicans. Many GOP members lack facts. Rep. Johnson (who denied the events at January 6 being an armed insurrection) is known to have supported Trump, and we know Trump is a sexist, racist, and xenophobe. No one can change the facts at the U.S. Capitol regardless of what Johnson says.
Many agents have taken Malcolm X's words out of context as an excuse to promote hatred against all progressives. These agents are white far right conservatives and Hoteps. Their argument is that since Malcolm X gave a comment criticizing liberals, then any black person who is a progressive person is an enemy of freedom. That is a lie. The truth is that Malcolm X was readily interviewed on politics. Back in 1964, LBJ was running for President against Barry Goldwater. Malcolm X said that he didn't trust LBJ for his support of the Vietnam War and other reasons, but he also criticized Barry Goldwater as a far right extremist. Also, Malcolm X in 1965 opposed the Vietnam War, promoted women's rights, and criticized capitalism by name (which are progressive positions). You noticed that these agents don't mention that, because it is obvious that Malcolm X was being more progressive after his Hajj in Mecca. He started to speak out more about politics, and he shook hands with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X supported the Selma voting rights movement in 1965. He still believed in legitimate self defense. The lesson here is that equality for all and justice for all means for all. Malcolm X was a heroic black man who wanted international support in his fight against Western imperialism. One of Malcolm X's friends was a black socialist Presidential candidate during the 1960's. Malcolm X was not a socialist, but he supported the candidate. You can't have economic empowerment without a radical redistribution of political and economic power as Dr. King said. People deserve housing, rights, education, health care, and freedom to live without injustice. In other words, policies empowering the poor, the working class, and all oppressed people must be made into existence in order to end oligarchy. Structures of racism and economic oppression ought to be abolished too.
There is a recent British medical journal report from the Lancet that revealed the Trump's administration bad health record. It found that the Trump administration was directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people during the pandemic. It said that over 200,000 people would be alive in America if progressive actions were taken to save lives. Trump was the same person who said that he once didn't take the pandemic seriously during the beginning of last year. The nearly half of million American dead in America from the virus was also blamed by The Lancet on the rise of social inequality for the past 4 decades. After the Post-World War II economic boom, there was the rise of automation and deindustralization. This caused jobs to go overseas, factories to close, and many people moving to the suburbs. Urban centers and rural locations experienced massive neoliberal economic policies and austerity. These actions results in the decay of numerous populations. The crack epidemic and the War on Drugs subsequently ruined many families, especially black families.
This caused massive economic inequality and the growth of poverty in American society. The plutocracy uses policies of deregulation and austerity to make select corporations benefit. Wealthy firms and super rich families have massive benefits and job opportunities are restricted. This is not new. From 2014 to 2017, American life expectancy declined. Carter and Reagan promoted spending cuts to reduce budgets. Even Bill Clinton deregulated banks, telecommunication firms, and used the Welfare Reform Act back during the 1990's to cut welfare services. Many health care services now promote reform and profitability as a sign of performance instead of human care being of preeminent importance. These problems continued when Trump was President. Now, the NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit against Trump and Giuliani for inciting the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. That is why you need for revolutionary, structural change in the world. That is the truth.
By Timothy
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