The battle for American values

What kind of country do you want? From David Talbot:

"Will we live in Mitch McConnell's America or Bernie Sanders's? That's the yuge question we must resolve as we endure the worst economic and social collapse in our lifetimes. Senate dictator McConnell sees no "urgency" in helping increasingly desperate out-of-work Americans. On Thursday McConnell denounced the latest three-trillion-dollar relief package passed by Nancy Pelosi's House as an "1,800-page seasonal catalog of left-wing oddities." Yes -- such "oddities" as cutting a second round of $1,200 checks to sinking families, many of whom can no longer pay their rent or even put food on their tables.

"It's now painfully obvious that America not only urgently needs Bernie's Medicare for all and student debt relief, but a guaranteed national income. Even Senate Republicans like Josh Hawley of Missouri and Cory Gardner of Colorado (who is fighting hard to hold onto his Senate seat) recognize the critical need of establishing a safety net under struggling Americans. By the way, that's called socialism, but don't tell the Republicans who now realize their own survival depends on it."