Well, the election is over. I voted for Biden, and I’m relieved that Trump will not be actively destroying America for the next four years, but I don’t see much to celebrate. We live in a dangerously divided country, with little prospect of healing that divide, and those who just want to reestablish an un-corrupted democracy that doesn’t poison our planet until it's destroyed are blasted by politicians and media as dangerous radicals.
Meanwhile the working classes, having been cast off by their corporate owned government, have become more angry and disillusioned year by year, until at last they are courting Fascism.
For democracy to survive we need, first and foremost, absolute campaign finance reform. Without it, we have no real democracy and no hope of reversing the damage already done to our political system and our planet, through the appeasement of every private interest, no matter how destructive.
And now into this mix sallies our unlikely hero, Joe Biden, who has made a very long political career out of satisfying every corporate interest that ever held out to him a dollar, saying he will be a leader for "all Americans." God help us if that’s just a signal to every corrupt private-interest that his presidency will be business as usual, because if it is than his will probably be the last democratic presidency od the United States.
Brent Hightower
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