{"id":1497,"date":"2023-12-17T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2023-12-17T01:12:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T01:12:43","slug":"on-the-sunny-side-of-the-street-biden-and-the-new-new-deal-brings-about-new-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"On the Sunny Side of the Street — Biden and the new New Deal brings about new hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

December 16th<\/sup> 2023<\/i><\/p>\n

www.zeppscommentaries.online<\/i><\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about why, if the economy is doing so well, a lot of people are sour on it. I discussed the six-pronged attack of the fascist movement designed to strip workers and consumers of power and hand it to corporations and plutocrats: Deregulation; Tax \u201cReform\u201d; \u201cTort Reform\u201d; State\u2019s rights; Freedom of (certain) religions; and the Takeover of channels of information by moneyed interests and fascists.<\/p>\n

The result is that average people like you and me have been stripped, not just of power and security, but even agency. We have been told for decades that questioning the right of the rich to having it all amounts to treason. I know I\u2019ve been called a communist for arguing for public campaign funding, or improving public schools. I\u2019m sure most of you have, as well.<\/p>\n

Dating back to the White Revolution in 1917, the aristocracy have worked hard to utterly control the lot of both employees and shoppers. When their excesses caused the Great Capitalistic Collapse of 1929 (the original Black Friday and subsequent Great Depression) they had to back off from the mess they themselves had created and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was able to implement his New Deal. The result was the strongest and richest economy in the history of the world, since his reforms and the rise of unions help mold a vast middle class, and what I call \u201cdemand-side economics,\u201d unlike trickle-down, really did raise all boats\u2014including, paradoxically, the rich.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the rich tend to be stupid and greedy, and can never understand that ripping off the rest of society undermines their own wealth and power. They would rather have 90% of grinding poverty than 20% of massive abundance. 90% of almost nothing is better than 20% of a lot, right? As I said, stupid and greedy. When a society\u2019s wealth concentrates to a small enough portion of the population, the whole thing implodes. Over and over, throughout history. The Great Depression wasn\u2019t a fluke; it was a built-in design flaw.<\/p>\n

Yes, their depredations sour the rest of us. But there are signs that even here, change is coming, and with any luck at all, we won\u2019t need another Great Depression or communist revolution to effect that change.<\/p>\n

Workers are taking back their power. Backed by President Biden, unions scored a massive victory when the government implemented a new rule that any company caught tampering or interfering with workers\u2019 efforts to organize would immediately become a union shop. No ifs, ands, or buts. It won\u2019t stop sleazy employers like Amazon or Starbucks, but it will make them a hell of a lot more careful. This NLRB directive (https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/news-outreach\/news-story\/board-issues-decision-announcing-new-framework-for-union-representation), which got almost no attention at all in the captive corporate press (let alone in the fascist propaganda outlets, except for the Wall Street Journal, who were alarmed!) was hailed by organizers. The NLRB took a victory lap, writing, \u201cThe new standard will promote a fair election environment by more effectively disincentivizing employers from committing unfair labor practices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unions are on the rise already, with resounding victories in recent months against the Big Three Auto Makers, American Airlines, Kaiser Permanente, UPS and other delivery services, the LA School District, and Providence Hospitals in Portland, OR. According to the Guardian, \u201cFeeling angry and emboldened, workers have been flexing their muscles. There were 301 strikes in the first nine months of his year, up from 172 over the same period in 2021, according to ILR Labor Action Tracker<\/a>.\u201d Even Tesla, with some of the worst labor abuses in the world, is in deep trouble, with union sentiment growing not just in the US, but in Europe as well.<\/p>\n

This is partially why for the first time in ten years, average wages this year rose faster (4.2%) than the rate of inflation (3.2%).<\/p>\n

Democrats in Congress have been pushing to make the ongoing thievery of so-called \u201ccontract workers\u201d a thing of the pass. If they gain control next year, expect to see the sleaziest and most abusive outfits either have to give their workers decent pay and rights, or go out of business. (And any outfit that can\u2019t afford even minimum wage and overtime pay needs to go out of business and won\u2019t be missed.)<\/p>\n

Consumers are starting to make their voices heard. Biden is still challenging the organized theft and ruination known as \u2018student loans\u2019 and bringing pressure to bear on those usurious payday-loan and other predatory outfits. Other protections are taking effect in blue states. I benefited from one such: a medium-sized snow storm caused my solar panels to crash to the ground last March, and the contractor\u2019s response was \u201cGee, hope you have home owners\u2019 insurance.\u201d But California mandates full warranty of home construction projects for a period of ten years. A friend made me aware of the law (again, not mentioned in the media) and as a result, not only were the panels repaired, but the installation beefed up so as to survive similar storms in the future\u2014at no cost to me.<\/p>\n

And another sign of emerging change: the fascists are learning that they cannot lie to us with impunity. Fox News shelled out $787 million in damages for the lies they told about Dominion Voting Systems and the election supposedly being stolen from Trump. (I\u2019m amused how fast Fox gets rid of the lying clowns\u2014including the ex-President\u2014who come on and still try to claim the election was stolen. But then, they have other lawsuits pending for their lies. So do some of the other propaganda outfits). Giuliani just got dinged to the tune of $148 million for defaming and ruining the lives of two election precinct volunteers. Trump himself lost a suit for battery and defamation to E. Jean Carroll, and now faces another suit for $50 for repeating the same lies he told about her that led to the first case.<\/p>\n

The United States is willing to fight for its right to exist in the face of the \u201cI-live-America-but-hate-the-US\u201d crowd. Over a thousands individuals participating in the January 6th<\/sup> insurrection have been fined or imprisoned.<\/p>\n

Mainstream media, for all its faults, sees the writing on the wall, and some have dropped the pretense that \u201cconservatives\u201d or \u201clibertarians\u201d are anything other than fascists, and are using the word. It\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n

Trump, beset on all sides by the fruits of his vile actions, is watching his support slowly erode. You can only lose so much before your followers start noticing and wondering if it really is all a deep-state conspiracy.<\/p>\n

The Solstice is coming, and I always write a piece where the central theme is \u201cthe sun will be back, don\u2019t lose hope.\u201d Well, I\u2019ve already written the one for this year (and you\u2019ll have to wait until the 21st<\/sup> to read it. Deal), but hope is definitely a factor in discussion about how people feel about living in America today. There is hope, and the reason for the hope gets stronger by the day.<\/p>\n

Never lose hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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