Things seem bleak, but it's that very bleakness that history tells us produces movements to overthrow psychopathic oligarchs.
Democrats thought they'd come up with a solution, or at least a good start toward a solution, to
the crisis of climate change — one that would also create millions of good paying jobs to revive the American middle class after the Covid shock. It was all in their $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill.
And then came the headline:
Kyrsten Sinema Just Threw an Unexpected Wrench Into Biden's Infrastructure Plans, quoting the Democratic senator saying, "I do not support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion."
She, like Joe Manchin, is apparently at least partly
in the employ of the oligarchs or, like
Paul Ryan, hoping to catch a great-paying gig with them when the voters kick her out.
We live in a time of crisis. Man-made climate change ravishes our nation and planet while a deadly virus shows us the limits of neoliberalism and the importance of a well-functioning government.
But the biggest crisis both America and the world face is the problem of psychopathic oligarchs, as these are the people who created and funded denial of our climate crisis in the face of science's warnings over the past 50 years and are making it difficult to get the Covid and other health crises under control (among other things).
Read more at
HartmannReport.com.
-Thom
