Recall 1934. At a Madison Square Garden rally in New York. There in the spotlights, uniformed Americans salute and pledge allegiance to the Fuhrer. In 2022, a reporter arrives at the presidential press conference prepared to energize a Republican base, marching in lockstep with fascists of old. It's January, and the reporter is armed with a question for the Democrat celebrating the end of his first year as president of the United States: Why is Biden pulling the country to the left ?
There's a moment of silence as Biden thinks on how best to respond to the inquiry Biden. Finally, he answers: "I'm not Bernie Sanders!" says Biden, "I'm a mainstream Democrat." A capitalist.
If America is looking for what a socialist might look like, they are looking at the one man. On the other hand, Senator Bernie Sanders, over there is the socialist! As he has reiterated several times in past speeches, he's not Bernie. Instead, he's a capitalist. What's socialist or fascist, for that matter, about a capitalist!
I listen to the right-winged reporter and the liberal Democrat and know there's something unspoken being exchanged between the "reporter" and the president. The question really isn't so much asking Biden to prove he's a member of the Democratic Party. The reporter knows Biden is. What the reporter wants Biden to state for the record is whether or not he supports pro-democracy programs that would dismantle, in time, the capitalist system. The modus operandi of America. Are you going to slide so much to "the left" as to make America unrecognizable to corporate capitalism? Are you to be counted on to make socialism available to the corporate establishment?
It's not Bernie, it's black Americans. And there's a reason for this fear of black Americans and not just among the right-winged leadership.
To be fair, Biden' s not-Bernie Sanders comment is followed by a statement about the child tax credit. He's in favor of those "bailout" packages to help the economically poor. Child tax credits shouldn't serve as the solution to child poverty in the richest nation in the world. Why are so many American children born into poverty in the first place while billionaires are flying themselves and wealthy donors into space?
To be frank, the Republican Party is the latest American Fascist Party. No amount of pleading will satisfy this cabal of Americans who don't want to see democracy come to fruition. Of democracy and capitalism, only one can dominate the other. Only one can expect to live. I'm talking about the Democratic leadership, the party supposedly calling itself a champion for the 99%.
The Democrats and black Americans do seem to be a pair where democracy and capitalism aren't in the least. Some 87% of black Americans came out to vote for Biden at great risk to their health during a pandemic (The Guardian). Black Americans did so because they are faithful proponents of democracy, and always have been since the days of slavery, when even the thought of their resistance terrorized their handlers in the New World.
The Democratic leadership claims to be fearful of losing democracy, so is the leadership afraid of losing the support of black Americans? You see, the reporter was serious. What is Biden concealing when he dismissed the reporter and moved on to the next questioner? Is it Biden's and the Democratic Party's ambiguous position? Both want to appear as if they recognize the contribution of black Americans to this country. But is the Democratic Party more grateful to the corporate capitalists? The anti-democratic cabal as heartless as the Republican Party?
Will you move to the left ? The reporter voiced what a good percentage of the populate discusses at the dinner table. White America doesn't trust Biden and black America is disappointed!
Isn't this why we don't have nice things? Isn't it?
Speaking of things, household things anyway, prices as the neighborhood "dollar" stores are rising. I, along with everyone else, noticed the prices of groceries had risen in the last couple of months. Right on time for the 5.9% raise in social security payments! Items that were priced at $1.06 in December were now $1.25. And what really saddened me was the clerk's response to my surprise. A middle-aged white woman. She shrugged her shoulders and said, that's what it is. We'll have to live with it! Then looked at me as if daring me to say something to the contrary.
This is Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Jacob Blake is paralyzed, but Kyle Rittenhouse is a free man. It's where the legislature hopes to pass bills punishing future "protesters", like the one who, as the narratives goes here, destroyed downtown Kenosha. The clerk knows she can have the police arrive in minutes if I dare to ask her if she were a member of a union. Did she have health insurance? In an ideal world. A world in which democracy is prioritized and citizens understand its significance and fight for life in freedom rather than death in fascism. However many times I hear the word, democracy, I know that already fascism is gaining ground again .
I picked up my bag and walked of the store, thinking I was hearing the hissing sound from the humans drained of life by the pods featured in the film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I was "one of those," not yet with the program!
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