Not letting a crisis go to waste: Some seize on Covid-19 to force change on America

Nebojsa Malic

is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT. Follow him on Twitter @NebojsaMalic

24 Mar, 2020 22:00 

While the coronavirus is a serious threat to the health of millions, it appears the US political and pundit class have already moved into the phase where they see it only as a pretext to remake America in their preferred image.

This may sound far-fetched, yet it’s literally what House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-South Carolina) said recently. His exact words, according to the conference call among top Democrats last Thursday, were: “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”
The infamous proposal by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), unveiled Monday, showed what that vision looks like: a wish list of political priorities, hardly any having anything remotely to do with public health or economic survival. It did, however, have such key planks as insisting on diversity of corporate boards, nationwide ballot harvesting California-style, and bailing out the postal service and government unions.

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