Due to Republican votes against, the US does not have an adequate supply of Covid-19 tests or vaccines for this winter. However, public anti-vax sentiment is an even bigger problem. A study forecasts around 90,000 additional deaths from Covid-19 through this winter that more booster shots now would prevent.

As most Americans choose to forget that Covid-19 is still here and infecting many new people, measures to track infections have been discarded along with measures to prevent them.

One measure may still show us that the Covid rate is increasing: people buy scented candles and report that they seem to have no odor.

How the Espionage Act, together with kidnappings and threats of violence, were used to crush the American Socialist Party, which was pushing for a national medical system as well as to keep the US out of World War I.

Now it is being used to prosecute Julian Assange and to force Edward Snowden to remain in exile in an oppressive country where he never intended to go.

*Over 2 million people in the United States live without running water..*

UK "libertarians" believe the state should let rich people do whatever they like … while actively restricting the poor as well as letting the rich walk all over them.

For example, *Poorest families would lose £400 a year under Liz Truss benefits plan.*

Among all forms of government we know of, the only one that doesn't allow crushing the non-rich is democracy — when the non-rich understand that that is its purpose and know how to use it.