Sawant and Street

We cannot only react to Trump’s right wing assault. We will need to put forward audacious demands that can inspire with the promise of a dramatic improvement in people’s lives, like those popularized by Bernie Sanders, including: a Medicare for all, single-payer healthcare system; a federal $15 minimum wage; free higher education; taxing the rich to fund massive public works program to create jobs and rebuild our infrastructure, develop green energy, and mass transit; demanding that Black Lives Matter and for an end to the racist mass incarceration state. Bernie’s bold program energized millions, especially young people, while Hillary’s timid, corporate-friendly proposals of tinkering around the edges failed to mobilize them.--KS

This is strong, from the pen of Kshama Sawant.

She overstates the depth of the "resistance" to this point, but levels into a viable vision of the future.

Paul Street has a similar rap dispelled of illusory, Sanders-like "soft" (my word) socialism.


TS