COVID-19 reality exists, even in the United States — yet, watch American plutocrats scramble to suck it dry

© 2020 Peter Free

 

24 March 2020

 

 

I have been thinking about President Donald Trump

 

. . . who perfectly symbolizes the American Establishment.

 

And (paradoxically) how one could kindly formulate his literary tragedy during these COVID-19 days:

 

 

A man brought up to think that ego and showmanship could deny facts, reality and accountability at every turn.

 

Only one day, to have a massively spreading zoonotic overwhelm the nation that he wanted kingship over.

 

A virus that visibly crushed his ability to lie, without consequence, about facts and mass dying.

 

A zoonotic that swept aside Oligarchy's usually concealed and plundering lack of humanity and simultaneously exposed whose blood it sucks every day.

 

 

Were I inclined

 

I might even exhibit some compassion for Toddling Donny.

 

But I can't.

 

Admittedly, he is only an indicator — a perfectly caricatured symbol — for how morally and spiritually rotten this nation's entire Establishment has become.

 

Yet on the other hand, Donald Trump's own personal evil — and it is that, even in the Bible's weighty terms — deserves the comeuppance that he, as the perfect American symbol, has invited:

 

 

[T]he pressure on hospitals in hard-hit areas is mounting, and several Democratic governors are demanding a more coordinated national response to get supplies as fast as possible to where they are needed most critically.

 

But President Donald Trump hit back at the governors' televised pleas, tweeting Sunday that they "shouldn't be blaming the Federal Goverment for their own shortcomings."

 

He told the governors the federal government's role is to be there "to back you up should you fail, and always will be!"

 

Several governors pushed back, warning that pitting states against one another, the federal government, and other countries in a bidding war on the private market is no way to respond to a pandemic that requires a coordinated national response to obtain and allocate emergency goods.

 

© 2020 Alice Miranda Ollstein, Desperate, angry state leaders push back on Trump admin claims of mass mask shipments, Politico (22 March 2020)

 

 

You can read more about these killing medical shortages, here

 

Capitalism — unregulated and designed to enrich only proportionately tiny elites — is not suited to keeping people alive in emergencies. Emergencies that would — if societally constructive in outcome — place compassion and preparedness at the top of Humanity's List of Necessary traits.

 

Instead, for evidence of Oligarchy's still-continuing leeching, just look at corporate and Fat Cat bailouts included in both versions of the COVID-19 relief bills in Congress.

 

 

The Republican (Senate) bill is here.

 

And the Democrats' (House) one, here.

 

 

Recall that these are bailouts aimed at corporations that have been buying back their own stock, with the loot that they accrued while predominantly engaged in predatory blood-sucking of one type or another.

 

Apparently, no large capitalist-corporatist enterprise is too incompetent, evil and greedy — not to be expensively and frivolously rescued at struggling taxpayers' expenses.

 

That is the United States, these days, in a nutshell.

 

 

The moral? — Spiritually, crisis tends to make us face our usually concealed individual darknesses

 

Among mine, only poorly hidden — and of which I am always aware — is a bottomless hostility to tyranny and avaricious Establishment malevolence.

 

I can think of no metaphorically better punishment for Donald Trump, Congress and the American Oligarchy than to individually die on COVID-19-aimed ventilators.

 

Oozing red-pink fluids to the rhythmic sounds of those insensate machines.

 

And finally, stutteringly, this Mighty Group of Grasping Vermin becoming completely unable to breath.

 

Their figurative mass demise, finally lifting the callously incompetent, pillaging indifference that they consistently displayed — from the mantle of the World.

 

I never said that I was or am, a nice man.

 

Personal acquaintanceship with humanity's self-protecting rage — is how the coalescing Spirit of Revolution, violent or not, begins.