> https://blackagendareport.com/bidens-and-trumps-foxes-and-wolves > *Bidens and Trumps, Foxes and Wolves > <https://blackagendareport.com/bidens-and-trumps-foxes-and-wolves>* > *Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor > <https://blackagendareport.com/author/Glen%20Ford,%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BAR%20Executive%20Editor>* > > 08 Oct 2020 > > [image: Bidens and Trumps, Foxes and Wolves] > <https://blackagendareport.com/sites/default/files/2020-10/Glen__845x400.jpeg> > Bidens and Trumps, Foxes and Wolves > > The fox and wolf parties – both corporate canines – debate how best to > acclimate the masses to their deepening state of precarity. > > *“The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at > least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in > a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But > the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but > pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than > the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the > growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the ‘smiling’ fox. One is a > wolf, the other is a fox. No matter what, they’ll both eat you.” *- > Malcolm X > > Malcolm’s analysis of the U.S. duopoly electoral system still holds true. > Donald Trump is the wolf that put a mind-lock on a majority of American > whites in 2016 by showing his teeth and snarling at Blacks, Muslims and > non-white immigrants, stampeding Black folks deeper into the Democrats’ > open fox-jaws. If Trump is defeated at the polls in November, much of Black > America will thank Joe Biden for their salvation, just as African Americans > credited President Bill Clinton for resisting Newt Gingrich’s racist > Republican congressional hordes and their far-right Contract with America, > back in 1994. Positioning himself as the only alternative to a Confederate > revival – and with the help of Biden, then a young carnivore -- Clinton > abolished welfare as we knew it, vastly expanded the U.S. prison gulag, and > deregulated the Wall Street banks, smiling through his teeth the whole time. > > Clinton’s second term coincided with a hi-tech boom that briefly brought > the Black-white wage gap to its narrowest point in decades -- for which the > fox from Arkansas took credit. But a President Joe Biden will have no such > luck. The current Covid-initiated depression – the second U.S.-centered > global breakdown of the young century -- has set in motion a deep > restructuring that is once again accelerating the hyper-concentration of > wealth and power that has characterized capitalism since the late > Seventies, under both the wolf and fox parties. As an Oxfam America study > reported > <https://assets.oxfamamerica.org/media/documents/Pandemic_Profiteers_Exposed.pdf> > in > July: > > *“**The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep systemic inequalities and > massive failures in our economic system, leaving tens of millions of people > in the United States without jobs, devastating public services, and > bankrupting countless small businesses. Yet as we face our deepest economic > downturn since the Great Depression, a subset of companies is experiencing > dramatic, windfall profits. * > > *“Seventeen of the top 25 most profitable US corporations, including > Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Facebook, Pfizer, and Visa, are expected to > make almost $85 billion more in 2020 super-profits compared to previous > years, new Oxfam estimates show.”* > > *“A subset of companies is experiencing dramatic, windfall profits.”* > > In truth, capitalism has always moved inexorably towards greater > concentration of wealth. “Disaster capitalists” take advantage of the > system’s periodic crises to restructure the economy to their further > advantage. The fox and wolf parties – both corporate canines – debate how > best to acclimate the masses to their deepening state of precarity, so as > to avoid a popular revolt. Appeals to white racism – the wolf’s howl > --have always been effective in channeling the anger and pain of much of > white America, although that diversion may not be sufficient to save Donald > Trump from eviction, next month. The Democratic foxes, having beaten back a > threat from their confused, captive and ineffectual left in the primary > process, have assured the ruling oligarchy that, in Joe Biden’s words > <https://www.salon.com/2019/06/19/joe-biden-to-rich-donors-nothing-would-fundamentally-change-if-hes-elected/>, > “nothing > would fundamentally change” when he is elected. > > When the foxes promise to return the nation and world to stability after > the tumultuous Trump years, they do not mean stability in domestic living > standards or peace among nations, but a continuation of the neoliberal > policies of endless war and austerity -- the Global Race to the Bottom – > minus Trump’s constant incitement of the “deplorable” half of the white > population. For Black people, that augurs a bleak future of deepening > immiseration tempered only by the rulers’ assurances that Black lives > finally do matter. > > The job of the Black Misleadership Class – who are the 21st century > version of Malcolm’s “house Negroes,” only now holding high executive and > elected positions -- is to vouch for the sincerity of their white corporate > overlords and to keep the Black masses in check. > > However, Malcolm never despaired of our people’s will to resist: > > *“**I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed > and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash > between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those > who want to continue the systems of exploitation.” – *Malcolm X, from an > extended > interview > <https://themilitant.com/2019/09/21/there-will-be-a-clash-between-the-oppressed-and-the-oppressors/> > in > the final weeks of his life, in March-April, 1965. > > *BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted > at [email protected] <[email protected]>* > > *COMMENTS?* > > *Please join the conversation on Black Agenda Report's Facebook page at * > *http://facebook.com/blackagendareport* > <https://www.facebook.com/blackagendareport/> > > *Or, you can comment by emailing us at **[email protected] * > <[email protected]> > > > ---
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