I have come with a sound analogy (in my opinion) for the state of American mid covid crisis politics;
the scene:
mass unemployment
growing welfare cheques being cashed
huge rises in umemployment rises of 800k a month in the US month on month even in the last so called recovery months
every economic marker in the red GDP, production, sales, debt at the highest every to gdp, inflation is as flat as a pancake (show a completely stagnant economy no consumption no production )
we are heading towards a VERY DANGEROUS CLIFF WHERE covid government unemployment cheques are tailing off in mid march and some even before this some of which it is already coming to an end in a week and wont be able to be averted.
Politics in the US is headed towards a huge cliff, where if they get this wrong and act too late there will be a huge crash economically within 2-3 months, where their inaction directly exacerbated the crash.
The metaphor:
American politics eg the senate congress and lead by biden, is in car all of them and the country of america is headed STRAIGHT AT A HUGE CLIFF, they know the cliff is coming they know they have to stop the car getting to the cliff by applying the brakes. Their concern first is not to apply the brakes, but everyone is jostling to get to the DRIVING WHEEL IN THE DRIVERS SEAT SO THEY CAN BE SEEN APPLYING THE BRAKES FIRST. The longer the jostling the less attention is being paid TO THE CLIFF THEY ARE MOVING TOWARDS AT GREAT SPEED.
As you see the problem IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOUR IN THE DRIVING SEAT IF THE CAR IS GOING DOWN THE CLIFF, ALL BETS ARE OFF
Explanation:
the car is easy to understand as is the cliff parts, the jostling part is concerned with the complete lack of urgency in passing the aid budget and the concern with pathetic party political points scoring balls, eg Biden own picks, and the Trump trial of impeachment. The complete miscalculation of urgency is pathetic, the only thing that matters now is the passing of the bill, everything else is tiny in comparison its not even close.
Coupled with this the lack of urgency they had a fucking recess nothing was done in congress last week, IN THE MIDDLE OF COVID.
DO PEOPLE LIVING HAND TO MOUTH GET A HOLIDAY FROM COVID CONDITIONS
Everyone in politics knows it takes months to ram through a bill, the first day Biden was in office this should have been started to be rammed through, the aid would have already come
the scene:
mass unemployment
growing welfare cheques being cashed
huge rises in umemployment rises of 800k a month in the US month on month even in the last so called recovery months
every economic marker in the red GDP, production, sales, debt at the highest every to gdp, inflation is as flat as a pancake (show a completely stagnant economy no consumption no production )
we are heading towards a VERY DANGEROUS CLIFF WHERE covid government unemployment cheques are tailing off in mid march and some even before this some of which it is already coming to an end in a week and wont be able to be averted.
Politics in the US is headed towards a huge cliff, where if they get this wrong and act too late there will be a huge crash economically within 2-3 months, where their inaction directly exacerbated the crash.
The metaphor:
American politics eg the senate congress and lead by biden, is in car all of them and the country of america is headed STRAIGHT AT A HUGE CLIFF, they know the cliff is coming they know they have to stop the car getting to the cliff by applying the brakes. Their concern first is not to apply the brakes, but everyone is jostling to get to the DRIVING WHEEL IN THE DRIVERS SEAT SO THEY CAN BE SEEN APPLYING THE BRAKES FIRST. The longer the jostling the less attention is being paid TO THE CLIFF THEY ARE MOVING TOWARDS AT GREAT SPEED.
As you see the problem IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOUR IN THE DRIVING SEAT IF THE CAR IS GOING DOWN THE CLIFF, ALL BETS ARE OFF
Explanation:
the car is easy to understand as is the cliff parts, the jostling part is concerned with the complete lack of urgency in passing the aid budget and the concern with pathetic party political points scoring balls, eg Biden own picks, and the Trump trial of impeachment. The complete miscalculation of urgency is pathetic, the only thing that matters now is the passing of the bill, everything else is tiny in comparison its not even close.
Coupled with this the lack of urgency they had a fucking recess nothing was done in congress last week, IN THE MIDDLE OF COVID.
DO PEOPLE LIVING HAND TO MOUTH GET A HOLIDAY FROM COVID CONDITIONS
Everyone in politics knows it takes months to ram through a bill, the first day Biden was in office this should have been started to be rammed through, the aid would have already come
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