You pose the question as though we have to concede to either. Our job is to build the independent power of the working class, which means encouraging independent action in the streets. We favor more, larger, and better organized mass actions. Who the chief of police is going to be isn't really our problem. We get the best results if we apply the only real independent weight we have in the political process.
We might be having a different discussion if the Democrats Biden and the other Democrats instinctively respond to any rumor about the demonstors engaging in "violence" by disassociated themselves as quickly and clearly as they can. To calls for defunding the police, Biden promises more funding and more logistical goodies for the police. Like Trump, Biden claims to favor universal medical courage, and--also like Trump--it belies what he's done. Ditto for social security, wars, and other issues. Neither has actually done anything good to address climate change and inequalities. Trump is probably the most piss-poor excuse for a human being that's occupied the White House in my lifetime, and we should thoroughly detest him, his family, his entire criminal party. I particularly hate the fact that he's an omnipresent feature of American life and culture, but realize that this reflects the oft-discussed priorities of corporate media. Still, Trump and his lot do what they do because they all know they can get away with it. They knew and know that Dubya, his CIA daddy, Reagan, and even Nixon never really had their power grabs checked or balanced. Who had the job of checking and balancing that? Who has been whining incessantly about them for the last three years and done virtually nothing to check this trend? Since the aftermath of Nxon, the Democrats have pursued a strategy oriented to getting the kind of donor support that Nixon had, which meant ignoring the needs of the voters and encouraging the Republican to be awful enough to push people to vote Democratic. So nobody can really be surprised that Trump's term has been characterized by more and more objectionable conduct. So, you have one party that's made a religion of cruelty and robbery, and another that's made a strategy of not effectively opposing it. Their rules for their game is to force us to pick between them. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1974): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1974 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77153511/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
