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oh dear!
How long before he starts changing the constitution so, like Russia and China, he can keep in the job.
Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it. It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.
But these are all just symptoms. The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.
Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.
Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment. At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.
The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.
And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism. They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.
So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.
How long before he starts changing the constitution so, like Russia and China, he can keep in the job.
The weird thing is, he doesn't even want the job, he just needed to stoke his massive ego and win.
And when he becomes too senile/incapacitated over the next couple of years, JD Vance could actually turn out to be even worse ...
I wouldn't be surprised if Donald, now seen as expendable / a liability, "suddenly dies" way before then. Vance gets bumped up and someone even worse gets the VP slot...
I wouldn't be surprised if Donald, now seen as expendable / a liability, "suddenly dies" way before then. Vance gets bumped up and someone even worse gets the VP slot...
I've been fairly sure, for over a year, now, that the republican's game plan was to use Trump to win the election, knowing that his cognitive decline was such that he would either have to step down, or would become so easy to manipulate that, in either case, others would be in de-facto control.
I don't think there will be any need to arrange 'a little accident'.
the republican's game plan was to use Trump to win the election, knowing that his cognitive decline was such that he would either have to step down, or would become so easy to manipulate
Interestingly, the same thing could be said for the dems/Biden! Many people didn't like the dementia cover-up, and the way that Harris slotted in. Would have been so much better to have had Biden step down a year earlier, and for there to have been a proper campaign for the Dem candidate (yet another pale stale hetero male).
But yes, the PR-clever garbage truck moment inadvertently revealed Trump's age - would have been a game-changer had he actually fallen over! >
https://www.newsweek.com/video-donald-trump-struggling-enter-garbage-truck-goes-viral-1977750
An interesting point.
The democratic party managers must have seriously considered the possibility (probability?) that Biden would suffer such serious mental or physical decline that he would no longer be able to function as president. He could even have died during a second term.
Of course, it's possible Trump may not see out his term, for entirely natural reasons.
Interesting analysis (as always) from Mehdi >
That actually make the result very slightly less depressing.
Very slightly.
People really need to stop protest voting. I have some Muslim friends in Brum who didn't vote for the Labour candidate because of their stance on Gaza. I pointed out that you're meant to be voting for who runs your local services rather than voting in someone who wants the war in Gaza to stop. Looks like the same mindset had a hand in getting chump in.
