Chronic. Neither the Wall Street Journal nor the New York Times did not report on the visit of progressive Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in support of Amazon workers seeking to organize a warehouse of 5,600 people in Alabama. Not that the stake is not decisive, but the game is undoubtedly played – the vote took place by mail until March 30. And Bernie Sanders got some angry tweets from Amazon: “There is a big difference between talking and doing. Senator Sanders has been a powerful politician in Vermont for thirty years and the minimum wage there is still $ 11.75 [10 euros]. Amazon is offering $ 15, plus great healthcare from day one. Sanders would rather speak in Alabama than act in Vermont. “
There’s a big difference between talk and action. @SenSanders has been a powerful politician in Vermont for 30 year… https://t.co/8jXzcxbpgW
Amazon is (deliberately) wrong target: the one who acted when needed, the real “revolutionary” is Joe Biden. From February 28, in an exceptional video address, the Democratic president warned Jeff Bezos’ company, without citing it, however, calling for respect for the right of employees to organize or not. You could say the affair is over, that Amazon has achieved, with his $ 15 salary, what Joe Biden has not been able to impose on Congress in recent weeks. It would be a mistake.
Amazon is Biden’s “Bastille”, no matter how half-empty it is. Taking it this week would create a decisive political momentum. Make no mistake, Joe Biden is on the way to achieving an economic revolution in the United States. After having passed a pharaonic stimulus plan of 1,900 billion dollars, he will propose, Wednesday March 31 in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), a plan of major works just as pharaonic. Democrats are buzzing about tax hikes, even though Joe Biden has pledged in his campaign to only raise taxes on incomes over $ 400,000 a year.
More Johnson than Roosevelt
From the start, commentators have noted that Biden teams are made up entirely of centrists. That is true. No room has been made for Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, senator from Massachusetts, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, muse of the left in Congress from the Bronx. The only presidential candidate rejected by Congress was Neera Tanden, who posted anti-Republicans tweets and chaired a progressive think tank. But all this does not prevent Biden from organizing a revolution in the United States.
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