I went to bed last night so angry and ashamed of the politicians we have elected term after term, who still can’t agree on the weakest of stimulus bills during the pandemic that we have allowed to kill 304,000. They are bickering over insulting scraps of aid while other...

...nations have paid people to stay home and, as a result, have fared far better with the virus.

Some deeply shameful members of Congress are means testing the aid, arguing that the unemployed shouldn’t get a meager $600 check on top of slightly increased UI insurance for 10 wks

It’s maddening to witness our failed state perform this tragic masterpiece, one party attempting to totally stiff the poor & working class while allowing corporations to kill their workers w/ total impunity, the other party feigning concern for struggling people while acceding...

...to most of the GOP’s demands. Even if you’re personally doing fairly well, as a nation we’ve all been cheated, lied to, abused by the ruling class & the politicians & regulators whose main purpose is to maintain (and widen) the massive inequalities that define capitalism.

I don’t know how we get a political system where leaders in Congress and the White House have compassion for people. I think the current system will never deliver what people need, & decades of “individualism,” small-government, anti-socialist propaganda make it seem impossible.

Change can happen more rapidly in cities and states, but they don’t have the money the federal government has. Still, I hope that’s where a lot of activists are focused. Hold federal pols & agencies accountable while making real change locally. Congress will always fail us.