The stakes in 2020 are greater than in any election in living memory. Now is not the time for the kind of free-for-all we saw at the Democratic debates.
Imagine an opposition political party in a land being taken over by an oligarchy, headed by a would-be tyrant.
Imagine further that the opposition party will soon face another election in which it could possibly depose the tyrant and overcome the oligarchy. But at the rate they are consolidating power -- over the courts, politics, and the media -- this could be the opposition's last chance.
No. It would encourage the candidates to emphasize the larger goal – in this case, to provide health insurance to everyone, and have them explain that a so-called"public option" to buy into Medicare would eventually displace for-profit private insurers anyway, because it would be so much cheaper. Finally, given the extraordinarily high stakes in the upcoming election, would it decide on its candidate in much the same way it has done in the recent past -- solely on the basis of who can attract the most primary voters and caucus attenders?
It would do best with a candidate able to create a multiracial coalition to fight the tyrant and his oligarchy – a coalition combining poor, working class and middle class whites, blacks, and Latinos.
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