1/3/22
In advance of midterm elections, ruling class acamedia asks you to focus on the past rather than the present
The Democrats preparing for the midterms of 2022 having little more to run on than the fact that they won in 2020. So, for them, the “big story of the new year” is what we will learn from the ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶H̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶C̶o̶m̶m̶i̶t̶t̶e̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶U̶n̶-̶A̶m̶e̶r̶i̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶A̶c̶t̶i̶v̶i̶t̶i̶e̶s̶ House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, whose members have announced they will hold public hearings early in 2022. As the New York Times editorial board put it in the paper’s January 1, 2022, edition, “Every Day Is January 6 Now.”
The New York Times editorial board—which consists of Demopublican opinionators—warned that the attack on capitalist “democracy” we witnessed so “traumatically” on January 6 has not ended. “In short,” they wrote, “the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends.”
Whether these pleas are representative of the lived experience of the Dream Hoarding top 20% bourgeoisie remains to be seen.
Frankly, other issues seem more pressing to both the Dream Hoarders and the working class. The rapid spread of Covid-19’s Omicron variant is weighing on U.S. businesses and workers home sick or quarantined and leading some companies to cut services and reduce hours. One example: airlines over the weekend canceled thousands of flights, capping a week in which carriers scrubbed more than 1,000 flights each day, according to data compiled by FlightAware.
Biden’s handlers, following Trump, have abandoned any federal solutions.
The corrupt US judiciary is flailing, as Chief Justice John Roberts pledged Friday to improve ethics training and bolster internal compliance systems for judges, following the bombshell report that found hundreds of instances where judges presided over cases involving companies in which they or their relatives held stock.
Meanwhile, resurgent China has taken the lead in global trade initiatives. China joins U.S. allies including Japan and Australia in a new Asia-Pacific trade agreement that launches Saturday—with the U.S. watching from the sidelines. The new Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, will eventually eliminate more than 90% of tariffs on commerce among its 15 member countries, in what economists say will be a boon to trade in the region.
The biggest prize: it will also give China a more prominent role in setting rules of trade in the Asia-Pacific region at the expense of the U.S.
Meanwhile, your bought and paid for lawmakers will continue to obsess about “the story of what Trump was doing—or not doing—in those crucial hours” of last January 6.