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By John Bachtell
As a nation, we’ve arrived at what some call an “inflection” point. We face immense, overlapping, and intersecting economic, social, and inequality crises, as well as a climate emergency. The COVID-19 pandemic intensifies all of them. To address them and the ongoing threat to democracy, the broad and diverse coalition of forces and voting blocs that elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris must remain united against fierce GOP resistance.
The 2020 elections mostly boiled down to a contest between two distinct visions for the future, or what Rev. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign calls “a struggle for the heart and soul of the nation for years to come.”
One vision is a multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, gender diverse society; a political and economic democracy based on peace and environmental sustainability; and government for the common good.
The other is a restoration of the past; an authoritarian, fascist-oriented, theocracy based on Christian nationalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, intolerance, great-power chauvinism, and militarism. It would be built on extreme anti-communism, a climate dystopia, and government in the service of corporations.
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