I want to make a distinction. Trump is not only a distraction he is practically irrelevant to what is happening. Yes, he is a culmination but the Republic has been in danger for about 75 years now. The ruling class's unwritten constitution of "Empire" has overwhelmed the written constitution and it is the Democratic Party that was the architect of the unwritten constitution. Now everyday democratic freedoms are at stake and there are whole sections of the Democratic Party, who are shocked.
Let me repeat, Somebody like Trump has been inevitable for the last 20 years and has been baked into the unwritten National Security State constitution for the last 75 years. All this liberal non-sense of focusing on Trump is what has gotten us in this situation in the first place. Trump could say or do anything and it wouldn't matter without the backing of his enablers. If his enablers get away with a less legal coup d'etat *then and only then *will Trump be the main problem, because then he and his cronies will begin to purge as many people as they can. Focusing on Trump as the main problem is demobilizing. Focusing on Trump is focusing on Biden as an alternative to Trump. Let's be clear if Biden gets put into the Presidency instead of Trump we will just be waiting around for the next Trump. Trumps and their kin are inevitable in the current system and the only reason to hope that Biden wins over Trump is that it will give us time to breathe and organize. Trump barely knows how to play chess. But while the Republicans are playing the game of chess very badly everybody else is playing ducks and drakes. This not only includes the liberals it also includes the left. There is nothing. There is absolutely nothing that anybody is doing of real import to prevent a coup d'etat that is as plain as the street scene out my window. There are rank-and-file organizations and they should be preparing stress tests for mobilization. We need an ad-hoc leadership of mostly people of color to lead working people to form now and to test their powers of mobilization now if we are going to prevent this. Those of you who think we are fighting Trump in this slow-motion legal coup d'etat are deluding yourself. We are not fighting Trump. We are fighting the whole Republican Party and the billionaires behind it. On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 8:22 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 06:05 PM, Mark Lause wrote: > > We are not the enemy. > > Neither are we particularly effective about being THEIR enemy. > > > > Your saying so does not make it so. This is a glib and arrogant cheap shot > that does not constitute a valid reply to what I wrote. Your deserved > eminence as a historian does not make this kind of shallow nonsense > acceptable or even tolerable. > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1978): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1978 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77055888/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
