So today Trump, after pardoning everyone that's not black, gets to disappear into history. Posterity recording him as a narcissistic fantasist who lied to convince the world he was going to drain the so-called swamp. Unfortunately those working class that fell for his maverick act were unaware he was slap bang in the middle of it.
I have no illusions that Biden will be any better. He is another member of Chez Swamp, only less unstable and less of an outlier. But he is an establishment politician through and through, it will be a return to business as usual, with the stultifying stability that ensues. The fringes will be smoothed over, but the US will be no less a totalitarian capitalist state, using prison slave labour and global destabilization to maintain its fading hegemony in a world within which it is increasingly toxic and irrelevant.
If I'm 100% honest, I couldn't give a damn about what happened on the 6th. It's probably not a good thing, but to hear the strained cries of the state and its liberal defenders is sickening. Sedition! That word is used by witch hunters and McCarthyites; it gets used to describe the perceived influence of ethnic minorities by racist demagogues and state leaders. It's not sedition, it's the mindless entitled who have been brainwashed by corporate capitalist media into thinking, for one reason or another, that Trump is their man and his removal can only have come through chicanery. It can't simply be that people find him repellent and stupid, particularly during a crisis.
I probably should give a damn. By all accounts these weren't actually the blue collar Joes I first thought. Instead it's the petit bourgeoisie and the middle class. But the reaction from the state, across both sides of the political spectrum, is ridiculous. Of course none of these were people interested in exposing how rotten the US machine is, its imperialism, warmongering and oppression - home and abroad, are things they don't care about. But if there is ever going to be change, in America at least, then that machine will have to be confronted and those confronting it, eg antifa groups, will be called seditious and terrorists just the same. That already happens. My problem then is allowing the normalization of this rhetoric. To be instantly offended and outraged equally with the politicians when something like this happens, instead of an opportunity to expose the truth about capitalist states, none more powerful or vicious, perhaps, as the USA.
Biden is at the heart of it. Now it's going to be his turn to hold the reigns of power. A 77 year old man who will be in his 80's when the next election happens. I don't want to be ageist. Indeed the attacks against him by Trump supporters are odious in their disablist. There is no reason why an elderly person can't be perfectly capable, but is this the best we can do? The democratic machinery, the entirety of US politics, cannot find someone more vibrant and vital - he ain't! I don't wish him ill, I just wish the US would fuck off and stop oppressing people at home and abroad while the world burns in a fever.
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