America's pride was in its checks and balance system in our Constitution.
Unfortunately, they didn't check on money, people buying other people,
people buying influence, people hiring ex governmental employees
who knew the workings of these safety regulations to undo them,
people bribing their senators and congressmen.
That wasn't part of it.
And so
there isn’t the anti-Communist
message because they don't even need it.
There aren't left voices out there saying
this is the greed of capitalism gone mad and endangering you.
Instead, people are saying we should have regulations. No,
we shouldn’t just have regulations it will be undone.
Within this system of the most unequal country in the world*,
you buy the legislature.
So the regulations are what out.
And we are unprotected.
This is terribly dangerous for us.
And the solution is not just more regulations
or the
government coming in and giving our tax money
not only to the Ukrainians to fight our proxy war
in Russia and also, of course, to feather their own nests.
I should say parenthetically that in the European French newspaper
that I saw, they have pictures of Zelenskyy’s Villa
in southern Italy when the whole thing goes belly up
and he can relax with our money
in southern Italy.
We will not control this under capitalism.
We need an accountable socialist government.
We need to stop buying our government,
stop having the best democracy money can buy,
and actually have a democracy.
One of the reasons that France is ahead of us in terms of democracy
is that
there is no private money allowed
in any election.
Also there, unions are left unions
and their rules are that no union head
can be paid
more than the highest paid member
in his her or their union.
So that you don't have these generations of wealthy bureaucrats out of touch
with their members.
But they have very robust
socialist parties running.
Mélenchon has a huge number of seats in the Parliament
and he is a socialist of a unified movement
of climate activists,
racial justice activists, gender activists,
sexual rights activists
and labor unions,
together with indigenous people
and BLM movements.
A huge force which of course we could have too,
if we had a reasonable socialist party
unifying us with class transformation.
But at the present, our country is out of control.
Our empire is falling.
And instead of admitting it, we're denying it
either by pretending it doesn't exist like Biden and the Democrats do,
or variously asserting
that we are the greatest, the greatest, the greatest
even as we tumble the way the MAGA people and Trump does.