Two Hundred and Fourteen

I was running out of food, but all the free food pantries are inside churches, and all the churches are closed now, so I went online to look for other places where free food was being distributed.  

The only place I found was a middle school about twenty miles away.  All the schools are closed, too, but they were distributing food in this school's parking lot.

I arrived at the school half an hour before the time scheduled for distribution, but there was already a line of cars waiting.  It was two or perhaps three miles long, doubled back and forth, back and forth between rows of orange traffic cones set up in the school’s parking lot. 

The school is in a middle class neighborhood, and all the cars were SUVs, the favorite ride of middle class suburbanites.  Each was big, shiny and obviously new, looking as though it had just been driven out of the showroom.  These are the new poor.  I looked out of place in line, an old man in an old hatchback. 

The unemployment rate is higher now than it was at the height of the Great Depression, but no one is calling this a depression, much less the Greater Depression.  It's greater because Trump is president.  

Some people compare Trump to Hoover, because they claim Hoover did nothing when the economy collapsed back in 1929.  But some historians claim Hoover's actions actually began the economic recovery which FDR then built on and extended.  Hoover just didn't do enough, and quickly enough.

And far from doing nothing, Trump is using this depression to enrich himself, as a capitalist should.  

If Trump is no Hoover, Sanders is no FDR.  

FDR wasn't elected because he promised change, as Obama did and Sanders does.  He was a member of the American aristocracy, and became a reformer only after he was elected and saw how close the USA was to collapse.  FDR later boasted that his reforms saved capitalism. 

Sanders the social democrat could be a better president than FDR the capitalist, but we'll never know, because Sanders isn't an aristocrat, someone our rulers can trust will serve their interests as president, as they trusted FDR (He did serve their interests, but they're too stupid to realise it).  That's why the Democratic Party's bosses prefer to lose the presidential election to Trump the capitalist rather than win with Sanders the social democrat.  That's why this is already the Greater Depression, even though it's just beginning.