{"id":4446,"date":"2020-10-23T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2020-10-23T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:54:25","slug":"the-radical-biden-sanders-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=4446","title":{"rendered":"The Radical Biden-Sanders Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Mary Anne Wentink<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Trump continues to\u00a0 reference &#8220;the Manifesto,&#8221; a document officially known as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf\">Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a 110-page agreement signed by Joe Biden to garner the support of Bernie Sanders and his adherents and still accessible via the Biden campaign website. In other words, this agreement is still in force and both explains and identifies just how far left the Democrat Party has lurched since the Obama Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RWCSDC\u2019s<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> On the March <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">August 2020 edition included a list of specific recommendations from this document, which has since been published to the RWCSDC website as &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwcsdc.org\/documents\/BidenUnityPlatform_01.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joe Biden\u2019s Plan for America<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.&#8221; This list was compiled by the Trump campaign and emphasizes immigration issues, an important but relatively small part of the original document. Since August, we\u2019ve had a chance to go through the entire document and prepare some observations of our own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The document addresses six major issues: Climate, Criminal Justice, Economy, Education, Health Care, and Immigration. Arguments are split into two sections that can be roughly described as assumptions and recommendations, each addressing each issue in turn. In short, there are 12 individual essays, each supposedly concentrating on a single issue. Unfortunately, they do not. Virtually every essay refers to each of the topics in varying degrees of complexity, further confused by an extensive use of jargon, catch phrases, acronyms, and complaints specifically directed towards the Trump administration. This level of obfuscation is necessary to hide or at least obscure some of the more outrageous recommendations, but several things come out loud and clear:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Climate change is a global emergency.&#8221; Strangely enough, despite that declaration at the very beginning of the document, a call to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, and the identification of several, extremely costly measures to achieve zero emissions, most of the climate discussions quickly veer into the following conclusions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">America is a racist country controlled by greedy corporate executives and the &#8220;rich.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All phases of the American experience \u2013 including the six named issues \u2013 have been specifically designed to hold back or otherwise harm people of color, and, to a lesser extent, all American wage-earners.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Democrat Party and unionization of all sectors of the American economy are the American people\u2019s only protection from corporations and corrupt corporate executives and, of course, President Trump.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the Democrat Party\u2019s intent to correct all perceived ills, not only within America but throughout the world via unionization, intra- and international commissions, treaties and outright grants.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, much of this is left unsaid \u2013 only intimated again and again by internal references that would leave the uninformed to believe that the United States is a huge conglomerate or medieval fiefdom forcing its people\u2014and especially people of color\u2014to work in dangerous conditions for starvation wages within heavily polluted environments to die early and leave huge unpaid health bills to be paid by their already burdened and undereducated children. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cure is stated repeatedly, often using COVID-19 as a case in point:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forced unionization both in the public and the private sectors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universal healthcare \u2013 document speaks of a public option that would cost little or nothing and provide everything to all, including undocumented immigrants \u2013 an option that would undercut and bankrupt all private insurance, assuring single-payer, governmental healthcare for all.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universal education in a fully unionized setting in which private charter schools are abolished, public charter schools are subsidiary to the public school system, and all public colleges and universities are free. Curricula will provide &#8220;holistic, deeper learning\u2026 responsive to cultural and linguistic diversity&#8221; and standardized testing will be banned.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A complete restructuring of our criminal justice system to root out racism and eliminate the causes of criminality via various social welfare and social justice programs. Cash bail will also be banned.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Retooling and upgrade of all existing structures and industries to meet zero-carbon emission goals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Punishment of corporate executives held responsible for pollution, unfair banking practices, various drug violations and other described &#8220;crimes.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased refugee and family-based immigration with a path to citizenship for all, including those currently living here illegally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Various giveaway programs including the forgiveness of student loans, universal broadband, land grants, and\/or tax and debt forgiveness to people of color.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free housing, health care, education, and food for all.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not quite a &#8220;worker\u2019s paradise,&#8221; but the aim is clear:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new social and economic compact that at last grapples honestly with America\u2019s long and ongoing history of racism and disenfranchisement, of segregation and discrimination, of economic exclusion and political suppression, and invests instead in building equity and mobility for the communities of color and Native American communities who have been left out and left behind for generations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does that sound discriminatory? Be advised &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based disparities&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and reparations will be provided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite some calls for increased taxation, nowhere is there mention of exactly how these expensive programs will be financed.\u00a0 Some corporations and corporate executives will be fined out of existence, but the document presents cradle-to-grave promises maintained by a beneficent government to provide social justice and universal equality in cooperation with trade unions, educators and climate change scientists. In other words, creating a communist economy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is what Joe Biden has promised Bernie Sanders, so no wonder the man is hiding in his basement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Mary Anne Wentink President Trump continues to\u00a0 reference &#8220;the Manifesto,&#8221; a document officially known as Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations, a 110-page agreement signed by Joe Biden to garner the support of Bernie Sanders and his adherents and still accessible via the Biden campaign website. 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