Sanders runs on a platform of radical reform, railing against the wealthy and proposing to patch up capitalism. He touts plans to hike taxes to fund an expansion of government-backed Medicare health insurance. He says he would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and praised Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos two years ago when Bezos set Amazon’s minimum wage at that meager level.
He points workers away from relying on our own capacities to organize and struggle against the bosses and urges them to rely on him to “stand up to Wall Street,” and make things fairer. He encourages dependency on the state and its massive regulatory bureaucracy to do good things for working people if they’ll just put him in office. This is his plan, rather than a struggle by workers and our allies to replace the state with our own government — one that can lead millions to transform social relations and ourselves in the process.
His democratic socialist supporters at Jacobin magazine say he would emulate Franklin Delano Roosevelt, enacting a raft of executive orders from the White House to do good, because there’s no way he could pass legislation to do so.
They point to how Roosevelt used anti-democratic orders to create the Office of Scientific Research and Development, as well as the key bodies to advance the U.S. rulers’ entry into the second imperialist world war — like the War Labor Board that tried to impose a wage freeze on workers.
The Democrats have spent three years — since the day Trump was elected — trying to overturn the vote that put him in office so they wouldn’t have to face him again this November....
From: https://themilitant.com/2020/02/15/2020-election-deepens-crisis-of-democrats-republicans/
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