The Idiot Factor: Corruption Folly : Two political parties—two political approaches

By SJ Otto

For many weeks now the news has been dominated by the Coronavirus. Suddenly it is front page news, almost every day. If World War 3 broke out, it would be back page news. We have a backward president who tries to take credit for anything he does, that works against this modern day plague.

Probably the main important news of the day would be the election that is coming up next November. So far I have seen very few ads on TV and in our own mail. This is a hard core Republican state, so we can’t expect a whole lot of pro-Democrat politicians running for seats in this area.

I haven’t been out much. For one thing I am 65 years old and I have diabetes. So I don’t have many reasons for leaving my tiny home. It is small, but Cam (my wife) and I own it outright. We only have to pay taxes on this place. So we pay no rent, house payments or anything other than taxes.

So when I hear these conservative people going to rallies in front of public buildings, carrying assault weapons and making statements to the press, I realize these people have no feelings for others. According to these conservatives and according to Vox:

Conservatives’ frustration over state stay-at-home orders continued to boil over into the streets with protests in Texas, Indiana, New Hampshire, Nevada, Maryland, Utah, and Wisconsin taking place on Saturday — reflecting simmering tensions about state governments’ responses to the Coronavirus, but not necessarily widespread views, research indicates.

The protests followed other similar events last week in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Michigan, Minnesota, Idaho, Kentucky, and California. At each of those events — and at the protests Saturday — demonstrators walked around in close contact with one another, carrying signs decrying their governors, as they questioned the threat the Coronavirus poses while demanding to be allowed to go back to work.

“Keep America Free, wake up sheep,” read one Utah protester’s sign Saturday, while a New Hampshire woman’s poster read “Free people make their own risk assessments.” At a gathering in Austin, Texas, protesters cheered on Alex Jones, the founder of right-wing conspiracy theory website Infowars, as he drove by shouting, “Everybody knows we’ve been attacked by biological weapons” on a megaphone.

So for people as I, does my opinion matter to these people at all, or am I just a statistic—where by conservative people get to brush off my life as unimportant. Many of these people just don’t care if people as I live or die. That seems to be the conservative way. It is their way or no other way.

As I look at the mail I have received by those who are actively running a campaign, I have received an ad by Dr. Roger Marshall. He is openly running his campaign and he is running as a conservative who is running as “Trusted By (Donald) Trump. and Delivering for Kansas.”[1] I’m sure some people are attracted to that add, but I’m not!

I also received some ads for Joe Biden. It is very hard for a progressive, as me, to suggest that people actually give money to his campaign, work for his campaign, or do anything to support him. He and Trump agree on almost all the issues the two of them have had. One of the FEW differences between the two of them is health care. For example Biden has written in his ad:

“They deserve a president who understands that access to affordable, quality health care is a human right...who understands that we cannot rebuild the middle class without universal pre-K, paid sick leave for all Americans, better pay for teachers, and more....and a president who understands that we cannot fight a global crisis if the world no longer trust in American leadership.”

This sounds real good. This is what many of us really need. Health care is a real problem for many of us. But HOW is he going to fix this. He hasn’t said. As to how he will accomplish this:

Probably the main important news of the day would be the election that is coming up next November. So far I have seen many ads on TV and in our own mail. This is a hard core Republican state, so we can’t expect a whole lot of pro-Democrat politicians running for seats in this area.

As I look at the mail I have received by those who are actively running a campaign, I have received an ad by Dr. Roger Marshall. He is openly running his campaign and he is running as a conservative who is running as “Trusted By Trump. and Delivering for Kansas.”[2] I’m sure some people are attracted to that add, but I’m not!

This sounds real good. This is what many of us really need. Health care is a real problem for many of us. But HOW is he going to fix this. He hasn’t said. As to how he will accomplish this, in an article by Sahil Kapur:

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden said Monday he still opposes a "Medicare for All" system for health care coverage, arguing that the policy isn't the answer to the growing coronavirus emergency.

"Single payer will not solve that at all," the Democratic presidential front-runner told MSNBC's Yasmin Vossoughian in a TV interview.

"We have a whole number of hospitals that are being stretched, including rural hospitals, that are going to need more financing. That doesn’t come from a single-payer system. That comes from the federal government stepping up and dealing with the concerns that they have," he said from his home in Wilmington, Delaware.

The former vice president's remarks come as the issue remains a Democratic fault line in his battle with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the leader of the national movement for a single-payer system, who is pressing his presidential campaign even as his odds of winning the nomination shrink. The debate has been heightened as more Americans become infected with the virus and the nation's death toll threatened to surpass 3,000.

Sanders and an army of progressive allies say the pandemic elevates the need for a single-payer plan that covers everyone, as the Federal Reserve estimates that as many as 47 million Americans could lose their job due to the coronavirus.

So as this week comes to a close and we find ourselves with two villains who claim to have all the answers and neither have what it takes to solve the medical problems of the Coronavirus. This is just a break in the Coronavirus news week. As we go along, it will be time to look at all the possibilities in what will or can happen in the up coming Coronavirus week. A tiny sub-life form is commanding our politics for both Democrats and Republicans. The two parties at this time have failed us. Without major changes these parties have failed us and failed us miserably.