FOR THE USA & OUR WORLD TIME IS RUNNING OUT

There is a movement underway to create a truly representative political party in the USA that works for the 99%, not for the 1%.

The two major political parties in the USA that currently hold all the power to legislate for the American people are not in any true way representing them. They represent the powerful elites who finance them.

These powerful elites determine the major policy decisions of these two parties and they manipulate those policies to suit themselves.

This is why the USA has no decent universal health care system.

This is why the USA has the highest prices for medicines and treatment of medical conditions.

This is why Americans risk bankruptcy every time they become ill.

This is why Wall Street is booming while Americans lose their jobs and become homeless.

This is why most of America’s GDP goes to the U.S. military.

This is why America foments and engages in regime change wars.

This is why America is on a dwindling spiral of debt and despair.

The crisis point has been reached at a point when America is going through a perfect storm of existential threats to those below the elite threshold. Meanwhile the elites of America are taking full advantages and enriching themselves by $billions.

Each crisis adds to all the others.

1) The current pandemic will inevitably be followed by others and it is clear the USA is totally unprepared to face them.

2) Trump and others continue to ignore the threat of human-caused climate change and work to reduce the safeguards, agreements and policies that would mitigate against it.

3) Unemployment and homelessness are growing along with reduced lifespans, drug-addiction, suicide and menatl health issues in the USA. The indicators are that all of these issues will only grow, not decrease.

4) The present outcry against police brutality which ought to have stopped it, at least for now,seems only to have encouraged some racists in the U.S. police forces to engage in even more violence. Only in the last few days man of color Jacob Blake was hit by four of seven shots aimed at his back by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The political system as it stands in the USA is not working. In almost every way it is acting to exacerbate each and every aspect of the nexus of negative indicators afflicting the country.

America has the potential to act as a major player in combating the afflictions the world is facing and will face in future. It’s scientists, engineers, technicians and researchers are second to none. But currently many are either under-used or incorporated within the agencies making life worse for Americans and for those of outside its borders. They are working within the political sphere as analysts and lobbyists, they are working within Big Pharma and they are working within the mammoth military industrial complex.

If research and engineering in America don’t pay they don’t stay. A grant will run out sooner or later and if the project is an attempt to solve one of the crises above and is not about raising the bottom line of some favored corporation it is almost certain to be cancelled by the Trump administration. Unbelievably Trump cancelled a group of experts devoted to research into the threat from pandemics.

Western politicians are failing humanity. U.S. politicians are failing humanity most of all.

The saying goes, ‘When America sneezes, the world catches a cold.’ The world cannot ignore what goes on in America.

The USA’s regime change wars have destabilized the Middle East. Its sanctions policy against Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia and others plus the tariff/propaganda war against China is nothing more than economic warfare, creating a divisive global environment at a time when the world needs unity of purpose more than ever before.

Time is growing short. We perhaps have ten years to turn things around. Decades come and go and you will know it has been a very long time since the danger from climate change was recognized. Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, every country on earth is treaty-bound to "avoid dangerous climate change", and find ways to reduce greenhouse gases. We are now in a worse situation than ever... and for many it is simply a case of ‘business as usual’. And for Trump and those like him it is a case of disregarding all such notions of safeguarding our common future for the sake of ever-greater profits.

In the last few days a virtual convention took place where socialists, progressives and independents in the USA gathered online to state their case for change.

There can surely be no doubt that change is desperately needed, doesn’t every sign show this on a daily basis now?

But so many politicians appear to be saying that the barriers to that change are too great, that they cannot make them because their corporate donors would be upset and might stop funding them, because they need a strong economy and a strong economy is built on producing and selling, promoting consumerism... irrespective of the suicidal effect on all of us it will ultimately have.

We are currently in an obvious Catch-22 situation. The changes are obvious. The result of not making them will be catastrophic. But the logjam of barriers to making them is enormous within the current political system in the USA.

Therefore the crying need for some means to break this logjam of inaction.

The forming ‘People’s Party’ is an attempt to do just that.

Continuing to rely on the Democratic or the Republican Party to make the changes necessary is an act of supreme and willful ignorance. It is completely obvious they are unable and unwilling to make them.

It is said that Albert Einstein made this observation:

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

If North Americans wish for their children and their children’s children to have a decent life on a reasonably healthy planet not riven by poverty, disease, was and environmental threat they will need not only to envisage the changes need but also get behind agencies that have integrity and fully intend to make those changes.

Those people speak in the video below, the first convention of the forming People’s Party.
Be part of this movement. Help make things change.

Time is running out...