CARTOON: So Long, Joe, It Ain't Been Good To Know Ya' -- Biden’s Parting Gift To America Of Christian Fascism
The Democrats will not alienate the corporations and billionaires who keep them in office. They have opted instead for two self-defeating tactics: lies and fear.
Cartoon by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy.ink
(Editor’s Note: Chris Hedges lays out the inevitable coming agenda and future the corporate-owned Democratic Party and Joe Biden are leaving us. Set aside any delusions of Biden defeating Trump, the dude’s polling numbers and dribbling pitch for reelection are in the toilet. In preparation for what is to come, be sure to see the second item in this post. — Mark Taylor)
The Democratic Party had one last chance to implement the kind of New Deal Reforms that could save us from another Trump presidency and Christian fascism. It failed.
By Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report (3/19/24)
Joe Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look set to make it possible again. If Trump returns to power, it will not be due to Russian interference, voter suppression or because the working class is filled with irredeemable bigots and racists. It will be because the Democrats are as indifferent to the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza as they are to immigrants, the poor in our impoverished inner cities, those driven into bankruptcy by medical bills, credit card debt and usurious mortgages, those discarded, especially in rural America, by waves of mass layoffs and workers, trapped in the serfdom of the gig economy, with its job instability and suppressed wages.
Biden and the Democrats, along with the Republican Party, gutted antitrust enforcement and deregulated banks and corporations, allowing them to cannibalize the nation. They backed legislation in 1982 to green light the manipulation of stocks through massive buybacks and the “harvesting” of companies by private equity firms that resulted in mass layoffs. They pushed through onerous trade deals, including the North American Free Trade Agreement, the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, which crippled union organizing. They were full partners in the construction of the vast archipelagos of the U.S. prison system — the largest in the world — and the militarization of police to turn them into internal armies of occupation. They fund the endless wars.
Illustration by Mr. Fish
The Democrats dutifully serve their corporate masters, without whom most of them, including Biden, would not have a political career. This is why Biden and the Democrats will not turn on those who are destroying our economy and extinguishing our democracy. The slops in the trough would dry up. Advocating reforms jeopardize their fiefdoms of privilege and power. They fancy themselves as “captains of the ship,” labor journalist Hamilton Nolan writes, but they are “actually the wood-eating shipworms who are consuming the thing from inside until it sinks.”
Authoritarianism is nurtured in the fertile soil of a bankrupt liberalism. This was true in Weimar Germany. It was true in the former Yugoslavia. And it is true now. The Democrats had four years to institute New Deal reforms. They failed. Now we will pay.
A second Trump term will not be like the first. It will be about vengeance. Vengeance against the institutions that targeted Trump – the press, the courts, the intelligence agencies, disloyal Republicans, artists, intellectuals, the federal bureaucracy and the Democratic Party.
Our imperial presidency, if Donald Trump returns to power, will shift effortlessly into a dictatorship that…
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Read up on how to survive and resist totalitarian times. This document will soon be banned and any downloads tracked. Download and print out physical copies of Gene Sharp’s “From Dictatorship To Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”. Sharp’s guide has been helpful to resistance movements and liberation struggles around the world. Seriously, make physical copies, this will be illegal. Read and store in a safe place.
One of the most significant statements made in this post :
“the Democrats along with the Republicans” made it possible to…”.
As it’s been for over 50 years now: they are the same damn party.
We’ve only that to work with:
Better start building a new frame work:
Whilst we start digging those tech/cyber trenches for WWIII.
(A Clue(????….there’s a path out of this that’s preferable, secure, and of course, purposefully hidden ).
Thank You. Mark, for inviting Your readers to check out FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY.
Permit me to invite them to check out where that comes from: the late Gene Sharp’s Albert Einstein Institution at https://www.aeinstein.org/ .
In particular, i invite them to take a look at AEI’s Self-Liberation Toolkit at https://www.aeinstein.org/self-liberation-toolkit , which describes itself as follows:
“The Self-Liberation strategic planning guide is intended to assist people who wish to plan a grand strategy, or super plan, to achieve their liberation and build a more free and democratic system. It is also meant to be useful to people facing other forms of oppression.
“Careful study of the selected readings is essential: they contain much of the understandings, knowledge and insights that may be useful in the preparation of strategies of liberation.”
It includes the PDF texts of the following of Doctor Sharp’s works, including extracts from his magnum opus, the 900- page, 3-volume THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION:
Self -Liberation
From Dictatorship to Democracy
On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict [by Sharp’s colleague, cohort, and compeer retired US Army Colonel Bob Helvey]
The Anti-Coup
There Are Realistic Alternatives
Self-Liberation Readings: Social Power & Political Freedom (Excerpts)
Self-Liberation Readings: The Politics of Nonviolent Action (Excerpts)
Self-Liberation Readings: Waging Nonviolent Struggle (Excerpts)