SocraticGadfly: Jobs report: Will 14.7 percent of Americans ...

May 08, 2020

Jobs report: Will 14.7 percent of Americans ...

The header comes from the new jobs report, putting the unemployment rate at 14.7 percent, the worst since the Great Depression.

With that in mind, some quick questions.

1. Will 14.7 percent, or more, of MAGAs finally realize Trump doesn't care about them, and simply is using them as tools and fools?

2. Will 14.7 percent, or more, of Democrats realize Biden doesn't care much more? And that Obama didn't before him? As if they needed more proof, per the photo?

3. Will 14.7 percent, or more, of either No. 1 or 2 realize that the answer is in third-party voting and that this third party is NOT the Libertarians?

4. Will 14.7 percent, or more, of coronavirus conspiracy theorists, including from that Green Party third party, stop it?

5. Will 14.7 percent, or more, in the various groupings above who consider themselves anarchists in some way realize that, while it might be fun at first, it's eventually puerile and sterile and doesn't actually solve anything?

6. Will 14.7 percent, or more, of Americans as a whole learn anything from all this?

Regular readers will recognized these questions as all being rhetorical and all expecting the answer "no." On 1 and 2, as long as neither duopoly party embraces national health care, they DO NOT CARE. Libertarian nuttery on deregulation is bad enough in general and horrendous at a time like this on No. 3. Unfortunately, as I've blogged before, on the horseshoe theory, there's too much of No. 4. No. 5? The only anarchists over 40 are professional philosophizing ones; that's the puerile. The sterile? As the Black Bloc has shown, by nature, anarchism only destroys. It doesn't create anything new.

No. 6? There's COVIDIOTS in the broad as well as narrow sense.

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