... brought to you, once again, by the Democratic Party. which spent billions of dollars doingits damnedest to lose this intra-oligarchic contest. Let us count just a few of the ways:
--Setting up Kamala Harris to take the fall. Her failure to win even a single primary vote in the 2020 contest made her a shoo-in for defeat, which is what Democrats wanted all along. Their whole purpose is to fund-raise by blaming everyone but themselves. You almost have to feel sorry for Kamala at this point. I don't imagine that she'll follow in the footsteps of her predecessors, the Clintons and the Obamas, cashing in with Netflix deals, speaking tours and self-glorifying charitable foundations..
--Their implicit goal of achieving lifetime status as martyred elite losers was cemented in the final weeks of the campaign. To ensure that Harris would lose, Bill Clinton told Muslim voters that Israel had a right to commit genocide because the Bible essentially had declared the zionists to be the chosen people. That was meant to supplement Michelle Obama waving her blue-taloned finger at men - who apparently do not empathize sufficiently with their womenfolks' menstrual cramps and the horrors of menopause to cast a vote in solidarity for Kamala Harris. It was really quite a retro argument, when you think of it, because the patriarchy has always pointed to female biology as the excuse to not grant them pay raises, promotions or even basic respect. Barack, for his own part, reverted again to his habit of denigrating Black men. His audience was not so much Black men as it was the white liberal burbs who feel more comfortable when it's a Black former president who utters their race stereotypes for them.
-- Ignoring the dire economic straits many if not most people are now facing. Ignoring homelessness, sickness and despair. Championing a genocide.
Now, if you're imagining that the return of Trump will cause the Democrats to do a little introspection, think again. If the march of the scapegoats hasn't already begun, it will get underway with a vengeance very soon. The usual suspects will vie for supremacy: racism, sexism. Jill Stein, Russian interference, social media... you name it.
There may one silver lining to this debacle. With the Senate now in Republican hands, a President Harris would have made all kinds of deals to keep the government open - cutting Social Security and other social benefit programs would have been at the top of the agenda. Such back-stabbing of regular people can only succeed with bipartisan complicity and cooperation. No party must be accountable and no one party need take the flame. It is why Republicans failed to pass NAFTA until Clinton came long. And the only thing that prevented him and his GOP partners in triangulation from privatizing Social Security was the Lewinsky scandal.
Make no mistake. If Trump is a fascist dictator, it was Democrats who opened the door for him and his movement. They are the ones who abandoned their disaffected constituents and chose instead to serve financialized capital.
Cynics and cowards, they have delivered the population to corporations and oligarchs. They should fade away with pathetic whimpers that nobody will listen to.
The way forward, if we are to survive this dark age, is to band together in acts of mutual aid, both large and small, both loud and quiet. Any resistance movement must be from the bottom up and remain as far as possible away from the Democratic Party and its various veal pen think tanks and its corporate media partners.
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