Ridin' With Biden

 PRESIDENT BIDEN, the first intelligent person to serve as president of the United States since Barack Hussein Obama, in his first speech to congress, laid out vigorous effective prescription for America's ascent to economic and social health. This automatically means, of course, that it will be strenuously opposed by the fascist (Trump) Republican party and the benighted American conservative community. Biden's idea is to invest in and develop a partnership between government and the lowest level of the socio-economic pyramid, to rebuild the nation from the ground up, which is the only way to build or rebuild anything, using demand side economics. The Repugnantans, by contrast, remain mired in their travesty, the outdated and long discredited top down trickle down Reaganonomic monstrosity; tax cuts for the ultra wealthy, followed by waiting, hoping, and praying for increased productivity in the absence of increased demand. Ronald Wilson Reagan, R.I.P., is long dead, much like the economics of unfettered capitalism and prayer. Senator Tim Scott, the G.O.P.'s token trophy African-American, responded with a fantastic notion that "America is not a racist country", borrowed from some arcane utopian right wing fantasy of reality denial, the one which denies climate change, among among other realities,  a collective delusion brought to us by the same people who insist  that Donald Trump is a  man of fine Christian character sent by The Lord to save white America from racist guilt, and who was reelected by a landslide. The alternative far right universe. While it is true that both major political parties have long since sold out to the corporate billionaire class, which now owns them, between the two, the Democrats are lightyears and decades ahead of the Republican-plutocrats in terms of actually serving the American people. Only the nations' six hundred and fifty seven or so billionaires benefit by supporting conservative economic policies. The tragedy is that most blue collar American males are too politically and economically illiterate to understand that Donald Trump's right wig "populism", like trickle down Reaganomics, is a fraudulent sham, a cover story, a distraction for sucking wealth upward, from worker, to corporate owner, further enriching the already rich. The real cultural was in America is oligarchy versus democracy,  not liberal versus conservative nor Republican versus Democrat, although the latter two  certainly qualify is real wars.  The solution is legislative and regulatory revolution, the sort Biden seems to be initiating. It just happens that progressive Democrats are the prime force for the need fundamental change, and the conservative Republicans are the prime defenders of the oligarchical status quo.