31 years ago, @BernieSanders called for an American 'glasnost,' "a soul searching for our own basic truths, a major debate over our current values, an honest analysis of the real structure of our society." 2020 was as close as we've ever gotten to this.
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COVID-19 and the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others caused many of us to question our commitment to the status quo.

If you were on the fence about UBI, or skeptical about #M4A, this year was the year to rethink all of that.

If you didn't think racism was a public health crisis, this year was the year to rethink all of that.

If you doubted whether we should unbundle the police and provide civilian oversight over law enforcement officers, this year was the year to rethink all of that.

If you doubted whether we should pursue transformational change and abandon the incrementalism that got us in this mess, this year was the year to rethink all of that.

But what do we have for all this rethinking?

Congress authorized $5 trillion in COVID relief this year.

For $5T, we could have given every adult American $1,975/mo. for 10 straight months.

How are we fighting over a one-time $2K check?

How did we spend all this money and yet give so little of it to working-class people?

This year was a historically miserable year for working-class people. No one can deny that.

So how is it that Congress couldn't decide to cut working-class people survival checks until this pandemic - this once-in-a-lifetime crisis - is over?

We all watched an officer kill a man for 8 min. & 46 seconds. We read about a woman whom the police killed while she slept.

Did Congress change the status quo that put Officer Chauvin's knee on George Floyd's neck and that sent bullets flying into Breonna Taylor's sleeping body?

No. Despite the protests, the marches, the tremendous outcry for change, Congress passed exactly zero bills this year to reform policing.

This year made *crystal clear* that state governments have far too much power to disenfranchise voters, and that they tend to use this power to disenfranchise Black and Latino voters in inner cities.

Did we pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act? Nope.

This year was a tremendous opportunity to unrig system so that it can finally work for the working-class and marginalized people it's so long been rigged against. It's been depressing to watch this huge opportunity for reform slip through our fingers.

But we must keep fighting. A better America is possible. This year proves only that we need better leaders to push for the transformative changes we need.

So vote. Organize. Pressure your elected officials to put working-class people first.

Let's win 2021 for working families!