We all know there’s no difference between them (specially if you live outside the US), but I’m actually impressed how little the Biden campaign is doing. All they really got is “Trump bad”, some bs about inflation being under control (if you exclude rent and food) and “protecting LGBT rights” (which I might have missed but Biden did literally nothing about?).
They should want to win to have their party implement the oligarchic plans and get that sweet sweet lobbying money right? Or are the elites actually preferring Trump right now?
The Biden campaign also suddenly brought up abortion rights again. They had 4 years to do shit about it and did nothing, so another 4 years will definitely fix it, right?
While he simultaneously tells the press that he doesn’t believe in bodily autonomy
And libs eat it right up.
The two dominant American political parties at its core are about generating revenue. Losing elections do not lower donations by a significant amount while increasing corporate taxes and denouncing genocide does lower donations - even if you win the election.
I don’t think the Biden campaign can say anything actually popular with the people without angering the donor base (price control, rent control, stop genocide, nationalize healthcare, etc) so the Dems are working within the limits of acceptability set by the bourgeoisie overlords.
I do think if they really wanted to they could stop the genocide they could. They need a colonial outpost in the middle east, not an ethnonationalist genocidal state that undermines your credibility. They could have established comprodore Palistinians to promote peace and integrate them into the society for cheap labor. The CIA has levers to get the Licud party out of power if they really wanted to. This wretched settler state’s excessive methods undermine its own legitimacy. The terrible things the IDF does are like showing off how well built your house is by putting a jackhammer to your house’s foundation.
I suspect is is more than just capitalism.
The end result is basically the same as you said, but for their future strategy it probably makes more sense to have Trump win. It gives them a super easy “Look, everything is bad because Trump was in office, therefore you must vote for us” campaign next time. Lets them run literally any candidate under the sun and probably have even odds at winning. Which means they can safely shift further to the right than they usually do.
Arguably it still doesn’t matter, because any candidate that isn’t pre-annointed would stand no chance of winning anyway, but it definitely makes for a super easy campaign message. Their response to any challenge can just be “Trump spooky. WOOOOOOO”.
the elites need a scapegoat and Trump is perfect imo. the way i see it, the US wants to escalate the current wars and need a republican scapegoat to bear the blame after, theyve been really struggling to make Biden look not-fascist so they need someone that doesnt care being labeled a fascist.
They’re not here to win, they’re here to send emails begging for money.
I feel like the only realistic chance of them winning is if someone else than Biden runs. They could pull some “we listened to your concerns and have decided to respond” bs, but I don’t think that’s possible anymore.
They could pull some “we listened to your concerns and have decided to respond” bs
They seem unwilling to do that. Quite the opposite. The powers that be seem very intent on establishing an idea that “listening to the people” is bad, populism and evil.
I’m not sure what the plan is honestly, banning TikTok because the Israeli lobby told them too is going to lose a huge chunk of the voters on both sides. But since Biden is president (which I’m starting to think he’s forgotten himself) the blowback is going to hurt the Dems much more.
I really am not convinced banning tiktok will matter. It will go down months before the election and I expect most people will have forgotten by then and more than that moved onto American regime controlled social media which will bombard them with the messaging that they must vote for Biden or they’re voting for Trump and everything bad ever you can imagine forever and are hecking bigots and so on.
Now if tiktok appeals and gets a stay and the ban goes down a month before the election, maybe. Also good chance tiktok buckles and sells to a US company minus their algorithms (so it’ll go to shit and devalue but it’ll also be killed off which is the goal here).
I’m just not convinced there’s this big group of young people voters who will either spite vote for Trump as a result of tiktok or who were going to be counted on to carry Biden to victory but won’t show up (he’s relying on older people, middle aged, Millennials, etc) for it to matter.
I’m also not convinced that the Gaza genocide will matter that much nationally. I think by then they’ll have completed it and stopped, put a lid on it, spun out all the happy feel good propaganda about how Biden stopped it, how they’re getting aid, how Trump is real danger and will hurt the Palestinians and yada-yada and I think that will work with most liberals who will be brow-beaten and shamed and fear-mongered into voting for Biden. They’ll also be blasting the sexual violence angle all over the place and if tiktok is gone and other alternative media clamped down on they’ll have the dominant messaging and people will tend to forget and get lost in whatever the newest manufactured meta just before the election is.
Trump still has a pretty good chance of winning though all bets are off. We live in increasingly interesting times.
I think this is a solid line of thinking. A terrifying one, but solid.
I suspect the elites prefer Trump but keep up appearances. He’s a tool, like Mussolini or Hitler: a lacky of capitalists to bludgeon socialist movements and organize the rabid far-right into a tool to use for imperialism. But liberal values are still the dominant trend here, so they must keep up appearances. But, in that too, they like Trump. He’s a perfect scapegoat. They can give him some slack to crush their enemies, then use him as something to condemn in order to shift all responsibility from themselves. In that way, even the tragedies he causes become profitable.
A better question is what are we (American comrades) doing in preparation for the inevitable crackdown we’ll receive?
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Ya’ll are in a both-sides community shitting on Dems but you think it’s their fault leftists aren’t showing up to vote for them?
Why are leftists obligated to vote for the dems?
Have fun being treated as subhumans by the rightwing fascism, I guess.
I’m sure we will be treated much better by the other right wing fascism 💀
Best start believing in ghost stories, you’re in one.
There isn’t a real or significant material difrence between the parties, they are both fash
I was already quite aware of your complete ignorance of policy, thanks.
I know things have been much better under Biden!
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erm… more deportations than 45… border wall construction… more oil drilling than anyone ever… killed rail strikes… prison population all time high… one tiny COVID relief check… Roe struck down during his term… GENOCIDE FUNDING… Etc. Etc. Etc.
Before you scream “BAHHHH BIDEN CAN’T CONTROL IT ALL” let it be known that he does control the first 4 things and the very last one. He has bypassed congress to give weaponry to Israel and Ukraine, and done many of those things solo. The Democratic party could minimize or end all of the rest. Roe could have been codified like 50 times in the last 30 years and it wasn’t. Now they want to blame the SCOTUS for doing what they’ve wanted to do forever instead of just codifying it. Democrats are funding and creating cop cities. They don’t pass anything genuinely beneficial for more than 0.05% of the population. Even for those people, it isn’t enough most of the time.
They’re really not that different. Sure, they don’t OPENLY say they want to kill trans people. They don’t care if it happens though. These establishment fucks are bought by the exact same people the Republicans are. It’s time you start believing you live in a fascist dictatorship, you’re in one.
Please then enlighten me of the material difrence they make in workers lives,
Elaborate on how Biden isn’t a fascistic Ghouls who would not sell out the worker to protect capitalism?
Biden is 99% Hitler, Trump is 100% Hitler is what I’m hearing from Democrats (well they don’t admit the Biden part but he objectively is). But Biden is running to the right of Trump, he’s doubled down on most of Trump’s cruelties. So logically if this trend continues the next Democratic candidate will be 100% Hitler while the next Republican one will be 101% Hitler.
I don’t see how you think this ratchet system of awfulness (Dems block movement to the left, Repubs turn things to the right) is acceptable or worth thinking of as anything but a sham. You don’t live in anything but a pretend democracy. What you want doesn’t matter. The cruelty and abuse and police state will continue, the violence of a crumbling empire will continue to lash out around the world and increasingly turn inwards with repression. Two hands of the same monster, two wheels on the same machine.
