So it appears that one bitter enemy of the working folk and the marginalised of the world has been replaced with yet another. So much was clear from at least April. The challenge for those of us who stand with all of those who lack agency will be to avoid repeating the last four

decades of humbug and brutality with its ugly climax in 2016 but instead build the vehicles needed to rewrite governance in America and elsewhere as an instantiation of informed collective agency manifest in policies that maintainable meet the human need.for wellbeing in all

the senses covered by the famous Maslovian Hierarchy. As things stand, governance is at the pleasure of the 0.1%. The current ‘choice’ of the common folk is to choose their preferred modalities of misery and risk. This reflects the absence of any vehicle through which other

claims can be put onto the agenda. In America, neither human safety nor biological need are assured for most people and so whatever we create must begin with addressing those fundamental needs around physical wellbeing. Too many go hungry and lack shelter, have limited effective

access to basic health care, have to pay too much for pharmaceuticals. Clearly, policies of securing access to quality public housing and health care should be key discriminators of the worth of any new political formation that arises from the wreckage of the last 40 years.