A study of nonvoters done a few years ago showed that this group of 50% resembles Europeans who vote in labor-based parties; here there is no labor-based party but rather 40 years of neoliberal assault; wages have stayed low; 0.1% hold 20% of the wealth; 50% live from paycheck to paycheck.
Our health system is an international scandal. We do have Universal Healthcare in the form of ERs, the most savage form of it.
Left liberal columnists write that they like Bernie's policies but Americans are not ready for them: universal health care and free higher education, something every other country in the world has. In 1950 the GI Bill paid for tuition and living expenses, but only for white men. Blacks and women were excluded.
The neoliberals have robbed the American people of tens of trillions of dollars with their tax buybacks and other devices; everything must be free for the flow of capital.
Then each time they crash the economy, we bail them out.
But policy isn't written in stone; it can be changed.
Youth activism is exciting: occupation of Congressional offices with support by the freshman Congressional generation has insisted that the Green New Deal in some form must begin; it has brought us as far left as FDR did.
The chemical weapons treaty is in effect at the international but not state level; however,
What's happening on the streets is bringing about change and DT is fueling it!
The GOP is the denialist party; only 25% of them acknowledge that global warming is occurring; among the presidential candidates only John Kasich acknowledged it and said Ohio would use coal power.
In 2008 John McCain wanted environment legislation; the Koch brothers launched a juggernaut against it.
Mitt Romney occasionally speaks out against the tin-pot dictator.
This year discussions about the election ignore climate change and the threat of nuclear war, the two worst problems in human history.
WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT OURSELVES?
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