Don't despair. By adopting a corporate platform and dutifully serving the oligarchs (along with their colleagues, the Republicans), the DNC is unintentionally helping to produce the conditions for a revolution that will end up destroying them - and, with luck, saving the human race.
You've probably heard me say this before, but unemployment is at the highest level since the Great Depression - and with the continuing surge of Covid-19, it's only going to go up. At the same time, Congress (with the compliance of the Democrats) is going to cut unemployment benefits by at least $800 to $1,000 per month. And 28 million Americans at least are in the process of being evicted from their homes, or will be in the next two or three months. That will increase the unemployment rate still further.
If children are forced back into school next month (and it seems likely that they will be, in most states), Covid-19 rates take another major surge - not only among children, but in their families, their working parents, and those parents' co-workers.
So: in the next few months tens of millions of Americans will be desperate, homeless, and on the streets - men, women, and children. We already have huge numbers of protesters on the streets, all over the country. Trump is taking EXACTLY the wrong approach to the protests - with secret police and open police brutality, he's throwing gasoline on the fire. And the Democrats in Congress are helping him by constantly voting to give him all the funds he wants, and more.
Can you imagine any way that this DOESN'T turn into a massive, nationwide protest, shutdown, general strike, or revolution? There's no way that the establishment can survive this, I believe.
So hang on. Change is coming. It won't be easy, but at least it will offer the human race a chance for survival. And maybe, even, a better world.
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