Our agenda today is to discuss the real political agenda for America in 2020 and beyond our theme here is tough choices for tough problems or grim solutions for grim problems

in the political discussion on both sides in America today you have what can be called a state of denial now on the political right you have a state of near total denial about environmental problems which is extremely dangerous which undermines any effort to adopt serious problems about national and global environmental threats to life this is a very serious problem however on the Democratic side you have a state of denial about the severity of the solutions that are going to be needed let’s just go over a couple of realities here the US government is currently running budget deficits of about $1 trillion a year that extend out into infinity obviously this is not a viable situation it’s not so something has to give here now in dealing with that it’s not going to be solved just by tax cuts skews me tax increases on the rich it’s not okay it’s going to be solved by tax increases across the board including the middle class and very important huge reductions in the imperialism budget the so-called defense budget which when you add everything together is about $1 trillion a year

if that’s not bad enough you have to look at the huge waste of vitally needed money since 2000 as a result of the attacks on America in 2001 by terrorist US government has spent about 5 trillion that’s trillion not billion on wars that it ended up losing wars that killed millions of people overseas for nothing now these wars have been very bipartisan because you had Bush which will engineer the Iraq disaster and the Afghanistan disaster Obama came along and increase spending on on Afghanistan so that the cost of money flushed down the drain their rival amount of money flushed down the drain in the rack but very pernicious sleep Obama adopted a policy of liberal imperialism which led to an absolutely disastrous attack on Libya which is plunged all of North Africa into chaos and killed God knows how many people he also launched a war in Syria which is killed hundreds of thousands of people and accomplished absolutely nothing unless you think killing all those people is a great achievement plus expanding US military forces all around the world and most of most important starting a new Cold War with Russia by organizing a plot to overthrow the government of Ukraine and then responding with a series of extremely hostile acts towards Russia which has set in motion a very dangerous superpower confrontation

unfortunately of a good part of the establishment Democratic Party has tried to blame of all people Russia for the fact that Hillary Clinton was such a disaster as a candidate now the big picture here is that any responsible Democratic candidate should of been able to be Trump in a landslide yes but the Democratic Party picked someone who according to all the pit public opinion polls had among the highest negative ratings of anybody in American politics and who was a key cheerleader for the campaign of death and imperialism oversee his first anorak then in Libya than in Syria and so on so this is someone who had very bad policies as well as being a political pariah we also have to remember that it was Hillary Clinton who wrecked and destroyed the greatest chance for health insurance back in 93 by a combination of lies and incompetence so this was a deeply flawed project from day one Bernie Sanders was obstructed in every way by the Democratic Party establishment he was obstructed in every way by establishment liberal media organizations such as MSNBC that’s the same MSNBC that’s cheering on wall with Russia today very suspicious events took place in such as such as the Iowa caucuses with the caucuses themselves were run by supporters of Hillary Clinton

 so  there is big problems inch on both sides in sharing on this imperialism we feel is imperialism is the number one issue that has to be addressed in the first place that if it isn’t addressed properly were going end up having a nuclear war which will kill everybody so you may not have to worry about global warming we could blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons before that kicks in obviously not a good thing but getting back to the big picture we need to have a willingness to confront that to make the changes that people are talking about in worthy goals such as a green new deal this going to have to be probably 10 years of austerity it’s not going to be this happy party you can’t announce that there’s a crisis and then say that there is just business as usual as far as a solution it’s ridiculous now it’s not entirely clear that severe solutions can be sold to the American people that’s not exactly clear one of the big problems is that you had charlatan politicians and yes he Obama was a charlatan who ran around claiming everything was wonderful so everything is wonderful what is the need for severe changes obviously the risen Obama the did more to undermine reform in many ways than the Republicans did because he undermine reform within the Democratic Party which was the key vehicle for for reform and is the key vehicle for reform in this country so that’s going to be a real problem but

we have a moral obligation to focus in on trying to come up with solutions which we detail on our website that’s that’s what’s needed it is not likely though and it is likely that the these problems are to start solving themselves so you’re likely to have a series of disasters before you are able to have real reform in the case of the new deal that was what happened by the way where you had the the plutocrats in those days let the magic of the marketplace run amok then they had the Federal Reserve and various people try to clean up the mess and the whole economy collapsed since the 2008 disaster we have not solved fundamental problems they if they have the budget deficits remain chronic made worse by Trump and most important the Federal Reserve Board has flooded the market with funny money that some people say well it’s not that bad it hasn’t raised consumer prices well the reason that hasn’t raise consumer prices is the money didn’t go to consumer so these people were peddling this modern monetary theory that money printing is going to solve everything there is nonsense there has been a huge inflation of prices of stock prices because that’s where the money went in so the these are the realities and

we need to move towards the concept of severe solutions for severe problems that’s the real answer when a patient is deathly ill you need to tell them you have a moral obligation to tell them and you need to give them the real medicine that may cure them when somebody needs cancer surgery that’s painful and unpleasant but telling them that they can take a sugar pill is not responsible no and Obama sugar pill will not be the answer it really won’t so telling the truth it matters and that’s a role that we are going to try to play as America tries to make some major decisions in 2020 that’s the end of this lecture