Calling the Raise

MISTERS BLOOMBERG AND STEYER will most likely do no harm to the Demmocrat(ic), (parenthesis to acknowledge the clever gimmick invented by Rush Limbaugh of calling the party the "Democrat" party)... party in its quest to save the nation from Trump and his supporters. Presumably, all party members are aware of and on board with this quest, which is nothing more or less than a quest for human survival. Neither will probably get the nomination, which still seems likely to go to one of the big four; Biden, Warren, Sanders, Buttegeig. But maybe its good to have a couple of bona fide multi billionaires in the hunt, just for appearances. that is, lest we forget that this is still America, the land where, as the song says, "Its Money That Matters", and all political power is purchases, a bit too expensively for most of us, the mere masses. People who oppose Trump oppose him so thoroughly that they would be willing to elect a yellow dog, or anyone else, to replace him as president. Those who support Trump, a somewhat shrunken but hardened core of fervent sycophants, are evidently willing to do most anything to keep him in power. Thus, the nation may be headed for head on reckoning, followed, kn the best case scenario by a period of repentance, atonement, and reform among right wing evangelical extremist Trumpers. The Democratic party, like everything else in life, is a plutocracy; it was never realistic to suppose that billionaires would fail to seize control of it. But you have to like, if you have a brain and heart, what folks like Steyer, Gates, and Buffet have done with their money, compared to what people like Trump do with theirs. Bankruptcy protection is but one of a myriad of socialistic government based programs of which Donald Trump has taken massive advantage to stay financially afloat, ironically. I for one would rather hear a progressive billionaire complain about paying insufficient taxes than hearing a conservative billionaire talk about cutting taxes on the wealthy to relieve the poor dears of their terrible burden of contributing to society.