Ondanks
dat de Democraten een keer zoveel geld in de campagne hebben
gestoken dan de Republikeinen, heeft de partij geen extra zetels in de senaat kunnen
bemachtigen, daardoor hebben de Democraten zetels verloren in het Huis van Afgevaardigden…… Ofwel de overmacht die de Democraten tot nu toe hadden in het Huis van Afgevaardigden zijn ze nu ook kwijt……

Kortom
het regeren zal Biden zeer moeilijk worden gemaakt……

Ralph
Nader schreef een uitgebreid artikel over deze zaak en hij verwijt de
Democraten slappe kandidaten te hebben ingezet….. De grote makke is
wat mij betreft de afkeer van de Democraten voor wat meer linkse
kandidaten, de partij heeft zelfs laten zien geen zin te hebben in een meer sociaal politiek beleid, vandaar
ook dat Bernie Sanders de voorverkiezingen niet mocht winnen, precies
als 4 jaar geleden gebeurde…… (hetzelfde overkwam Jerremy Corbyn van Labour in Groot-Brittannie, al heeft men van hem de verkiezingen gestolen met de smerige propaganda, zelfs op de zogenaamd onafhankelijke BBC, als zou hij antisemiet zijn*)

Zit nu
(gisteravond 18.10 u.) al 20 minuten te luisteren naar CBC Radio One,
het getoeter en hysterische geschreeuw is duidelijk op de achtergrond
te horen bij het commentaar van ter plekke zijnde verslaggevers. Wat
in en in triest dan dat deze mensen denken dat er een
aardverschuiving heeft plaatsgevonden met Biden, maar dat ze daar
amper de vruchten van zullen plukken……..

Oké het
is mooi dat een fascistische psychopaat, vrouwenhater, racist, natuurvernietiger, moordenaar van bijzondere dieren** en
neoliberale rotschoft is weggestemd, maar nogmaals: wat zullen de
gewone VS burgers daarvan merken?? Zeker als je bedenkt dat de neoliberale oorlogsmisdadiger Biden
heeft beloofd Venezuela en Iran aan te zullen pakken, ofwel dat
worden weer nieuwe illegale oorlogen die grote aantallen mensen het
leven zullen kosten en daarbij de al waanzinnige staatsschuld van de VS met
gigantische kapitalen zal laten groeien……. (de ‘running mate’ van Biden, ofwel de nieuwe vicepresident van de VS >> Kamala Harris, heeft al laten weten dat de koude oorlog met China blijvend zal zijn……***)

Published
on Saturday, November 07, 2020 by Common
Dreams

Biden
Has Ousted a Lying and Corrupt Trump—But That Doesn’t Mean
Democrats Had a Great Election Day

Loaded with nearly twice as much
money as the GOP, the Democrats showed that weak candidates with no
robust agendas for people where they live, work, and raise their
families, is a losing formula.

by
Ralph
Nader

“Will
the leaders of these inexcusable defeats—Senator Chuck Schumer and
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—explain how this happened?” asks
Nader. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) 

Apart from barely squeezing through
the swing states to defeat corrupt, incompetent, lying, corporatist
Donald Trump, the Democratic Party had a bad election.

Loaded with nearly twice as much
money as the Republican Party, the Democratic Party showed that weak
candidates with no robust agendas for people where they live, work,
and raise their families, is a losing formula. And lose they did
against the worst, cruelest, ignorant, lawbreaking, reality-denying
GOP in its 166-year history.

The Democrats failed to win the
Senate, despite nearly having twice the number of Senators up for
re-election than the Republicans. In addition, the Democratic Party
lost seats in the House of Representatives. The Democrats did not
flip a single Republican state legislature, leaving the GOP to again
gerrymander Congressional and state legislative districts for the
next decade!

“Will
all this lead to serious introspection by the Democratic Party? Don’t
bet on it. The GOP tried to learn from their losses in 2012, which
led to their big rebound. Already, the Democratic Party is looking
for scapegoats.”

Will the leaders of these
inexcusable defeats—Senator Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi—explain how this happened? Will they take some
responsibility and tell the American people why they let their
profiteering media consultants spend so much money on tepid,
low-impact TV ads at the expense of a massive ground game to give
voters personal reasons to get themselves out to vote, beyond Trump?
A third of all eligible voters stayed home. Could part of the problem
be the 15% commission the consultants receive from TV ad revenues as
compared to zero commissions from ground game expenditures?

Can the corporate Democratic
leaders respond to inquiries by progressives and the sidelined
primary voters of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren? Can
they respond to why the living wage, the corporate crime wave, and
the GOP blocked stimulus/relief package passed by the Democrats
in May (including a $600 a week extension for tens of millions
of desperate workers and critical aid to local agencies overwhelmed
by the Covid-19 pandemic) were not prominently front and center?
Also, why did the Democrats refuse to campaign for full Medicare for
All, supported by 70 percent of the American people? The Democrats,
as pointed out by political media specialist, Bill Hillsman, did not
speak directly to white, blue-collar workers who deserted Hillary
Clinton for Donald Trump in 2016.

Moreover, the Democratic Party has
a long-standing problem with authenticity. Rhetoric for a large
infrastructure jobs program paid for by repealing corporate tax cuts
and loopholes is seen as a throwaway line by many voters. Democrats
should have explained, at the local level, how determination and
integrity could shape the upgrading of our schools, clinics, roads,
mass transit systems, waterworks, and other public services, with
good-paying jobs.

Meanwhile, the Trumpsters showed
their ferocious energy for wannabe, ego-obsessed, dictatorial Donald
with more rallies, signs, and door-to-door contacts. The Democrats
misread the faulty polls again thinking that the projected huge
turnouts were primarily their voters and not also the Trump voters
who turned out in greater numbers as well.

Too many Democratic operatives
treat Trump with derision and mockery, instead of stressing how his
daily lawlessness and serial violations of the Constitution have
dismantled the protections for the people and turned the government
over to big business to do and grab whatever they want.

Trump openly commits federal crimes
(e.g. The Hatch Act, the Anti-Deficiency Act) using federal property,
including the White House, for his campaign, spending money
illegally, while brazenly defying over a hundred investigative
subpoenas from the House of Representatives.

Yet, neither Biden and Obama nor
the Democratic Party made these corrupt forms of obstruction of
justice, front and center issues. They even ignored Trump’s past
criminal assaults of women, whom he has repeatedly degraded.

These many missed, obvious
opportunities have consequences. Don’t Trump voters and their
families also suffer from frozen minimum wages, from the absence of
adequate or any health insurance, from those sky-high drug prices
that Trump failed to reduce? He put more toxins in the air and water
and allowed more dangerous workplaces. Trump calls endangering people
and the planet “deregulation” but what he was really doing is
rewarding his corporate paymasters.

Trump just pushes many more buttons
than do the Democrats. Why don’t the Democrats promote more unions,
more consumer cooperatives, more campaign finance reforms, and more
known ways to empower the people directly?

“The
Democrats let Trump and his lawless Attorney General William Barr get
away with all his corrupt, criminal, and unconstitutional actions,
which have turned the White House into an ongoing crime scene. And,
despite this ‘rap sheet’ Trump came close to winning the Electoral
College for a second term!”

Of course, the Democrats would
never argue that the American people, not corporations, should
CONTROL what they already OWN such as the public lands, the public
airwaves, and the shareholding mutual and pension funds investing
their money. The Democrats never even think to demand that U.S.
taxpayers get a direct return for trillions of dollars of government
research and development that have subsidized the growth of modern
industries (from aerospace to computers to agribusiness, biotech,
pharma, and more).

While Trump incites street violence
and then cries loudly for “law and order,” the Democrats don’t
throwback “law and order” for violent, polluting corporate crooks
who cheat and harm children, consumers, workers, and communities, as
well as rip off government programs like Medicare. Trump has gotten
away with defunding the federal corporate crime police big time.
Never will the Democrats go after Trump for the bloated, runaway,
unaudited military budget and its Empire that are devouring
necessities here at home.

The House Democrats refused to keep
multiple impeachment pressure (apart from the Ukraine matter) on the
Republicans. A national TV audience of the Senate dealing with a
dozen of Trump’s impeachable offenses would give even the most
ardent Trump supporters pause. (See December 18, 2019, Congressional
Record, H-12197).

The Democrats let Trump and his
lawless Attorney General William Barr get away with all his corrupt,
criminal, and unconstitutional actions, which have turned the White
House into an ongoing crime scene. And, despite this “rap sheet”
Trump came close to winning the Electoral College for a second term!

Next time, the rulers of the
Democratic Party should listen to civic groups and advocates and not
be so smug and incommunicado. As an example, I’ll refer you to
my Eleven
Suggestions for turning out the vote, with popular mandates,
available to everyone in whole and in part for weeks (See also my
latest op-ed in
the Louisville
Courier-Journal, October
27, 2020).

Now let’s see how many rollbacks
and repeals Biden will quickly institute to stop Trump’s
devastations and usher in a truly progressive, majoritarian set of
long-overdue policies.

Ralph
Nader is a
consumer advocate and the author of The
Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future. His
new book is, Wrecking
America: How Trump’s Lies and Lawbreaking Betray All,
co-authored with Mark Green.

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is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
License. Feel free to republish and share widely.

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*   Zie: ‘Jeremy Corbyn uit Labour gezet op basis van antisemitisme leugen‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over deze smerige zaak)

**  Trump heeft allerlei wetten buitenwerking gesteld waarmee bijvoorbeeld wolven en beren werden beschermd, zoals hij ook natuurgebieden heeft opengesteld voor commerciële activiteiten, wat voor veel van die gebieden betekent dat ze voor een groot deel vernietigd zullen worden…….

*** Zie: ‘Kamala
Harris, vicepresidentskandidaat voor de Democraten, geeft aan dat China
ook onder Biden te maken zal hebben met een koude oorlog‘ 

Zie ook: ‘Joe Biden de nieuwe president van de VS‘

‘EU politici stil na Trumps claim dat hij de verkiezingen heeft gewonnen, zoals ze ook stil waren toen hij dreigde maatregelen te nemen als hij de verkiezingen zou verliezen‘

‘Jemen: Biden zal als president de genocide niet stoppen‘ 

‘Democraten hebben de wereld ‘geshockeerd’ met hun waardeloze campagne tegen Trump‘

‘Joe Biden (Democratisch presidentskandidaat): Rusland trekt bondgenootschappen uit elkaar‘

‘Trump of Biden, een amper bestaand verschil‘ 

‘De VS is een fascistische (politie-) staat‘

‘‘Working-Class Joe’ (Biden) gevloerd door Bernie Sanders‘ 

Voor meer berichten over Bernie Sanders, Elisabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden en/of Donald Trump, klik op het betreffende label, direct onder dit bericht. Het label BLM staat voor ‘Black Lives Matter’ en linkt naar berichten over de rassenrellen eerder dit jaar in de VS.

Beste bezoeker dat was het voor deze dag, morgen meer berichten. Maak er zo mogelijk een mooie dag van, het weer werkt alvast mee. (een dag zonder hysterisch Corona en Biden gezeur)