The State of Things To Come

Don't despair. By adopting a corporate platform and dutifully serving the oligarchs (along with their colleagues, the Republicans), the DNC is unintentionally helping to produce the conditions for a revolution that will end up destroying them - and, with luck, saving the human race.

You've probably heard me say this before, but unemployment is at the highest level since the Great Depression - and with the continuing surge of Covid-19, it's only going to go up. At the same time, Congress (with the compliance of the Democrats) is going to cut unemployment benefits by at least $800 to $1,000 per month. And 28 million Americans at least are in the process of being evicted from their homes, or will be in the next two or three months. That will increase the unemployment rate still further.

If children are forced back into school next month (and it seems likely that they will be, in most states), Covid-19 rates take another major surge - not only among children, but in their families, their working parents, and those parents' co-workers.

So: in the next few months tens of millions of Americans will be desperate, homeless, and on the streets - men, women, and children. We already have huge numbers of protesters on the streets, all over the country. Trump is taking EXACTLY the wrong approach to the protests - with secret police and open police brutality, he's throwing gasoline on the fire. And the Democrats in Congress are helping him by constantly voting to give him all the funds he wants, and more.

Can you imagine any way that this DOESN'T turn into a massive, nationwide protest, shutdown, general strike, or revolution? There's no way that the establishment can survive this, I believe.

So hang on. Change is coming. It won't be easy, but at least it will offer the human race a chance for survival. And maybe, even, a better world.

Our Revolution Sells Out

I've been suspicious of Our Revolution from the first. Any organization that springs into existence and seems well-funded strikes me as likely to be a sheepherdering group - in other words, fauxgressives, designed to sucker leftists into dead ends for the DNC.

Today, I got an email that confirmed my suspicions.

According to the email, the majority of their member support Elizabeth Warren to be Biden's vice President. Elizabeth Warren. The candidate who stabbed all progressives in the back not once, but twice.

Any so-called "progressive" or "revolutionary" organization that supports candidates like Biden or Warren (no matter how much they claim that they can supposedly move those candidates to the left) is just another mouthpiece for the DNC and the oligarchs behind them.

Response to a neoliberal:

You don't understand democracy, it seems. No candidate has a right to our votes. They have to earn them. If they fail to earn them, that's on them - not us.

And Biden is actually worse than Trump, which takes some doing. He's more of a warmonger; he voted for every war he could in the Senate, and he has made it clear that he will attack Venezuela and Syria as soon as possible. He has also blatantly given Israel a green light for the genocide of the Palestinians.

Biden's Credit bill made student loan debt inescapable, and put millions of American families into financial ruin. But then, that's what his corporate donors wanted.

Biden's crime bill made slaves out of millions of poor, black, and brown Americans in for-profit private prisons. And the corporations that run those prisons have rewarded him with millions in campaign donations. But I guess that doesn't bother you.

Biden has gotten the best free health care for over 50 years now, paid for with our tax dollars. But he proudly asserts, in the middle of a pandemic no less, that he will veto Medicare for all. He is condemning millions of American men, women, and children to sickness and death. But apparently that's okay with you, too.

Lastly, Joe Biden's fossil-fuel friendly climate policy will render this planet uninhabitable. It will literally kill off the human race. So will Trump's, but if you want to tell me that one version of extinction is better than another, good luck with that.

They are both rapists, they both have dementia, and they both work for the same oligarchs who are killing off humanity. You work for them too, since you are pushing their little lesser-of-two-evils game. But more and more people are seeing every day that if we want to survive, we only have one option - and it isn't playing the oligarchy's political game.

We need to take to the streets. If we want to survive, there must be a revolution.

American Slavery

America has millions of slaves. What else are prisoners in for-profit prisons with mandatory work contracts?

And what are the owners, managers, and stockholders of those for-profit prisons, but slave owners?

Come to think of it, what are the police but slave-catchers?

The Mad Dogs

At this point, I suspect that the oligarchs and the duopoly would like the whole issue of police brutality and BLM to go away. From their perspective, things are getting out of hand - oh, not so much that they're panicking, but enough that they're getting nervous. There hasn't been this much public unrest since the Occupy movement, if not the Great Depression.

So if they had their way, they'd make some symbolic concessions. Some lip service. Maybe some mild pull-back on police power in some areas. We're actually seeing a little of that. But it's not going to work as long as the police themselves keep killing and brutalizing, particularly on camera.

It's ironic, because what the police are doing is exactly the wrong thing from the perspective of the elite. They're stirring us up, rather than calming us down. But that's because of what the police are: hired bullies whose purpose is to beat down the people. That's their nature. These are the mad dogs of the oligarchy, the shock troops on the front lines.

And that's why they're hanging black men from trees and claiming that it was suicide. That's why they're beating old men and women and teargassing whole city blocks. That's why they're targeting legal observers and the press. That's their job. They serve the fascist state that America has become.

The elite are in a trap. They need their mad dogs to hold back now, but they can't get them to do it. Oh, they can get some to do a few tricks, for show; kneel! march! speak! But every time, the cops go back to their same rabid behavior. And as long as they keep beating, killing, and brutalizing, more and more people are waking up and getting mad.

If there's going to be a revolution - and there has to be, if humanity is to have any chance of survival - this is how it has to start. The oligarchs and their servants have to be stupid, and brutal, and obvious. And that's exactly what they're being now.

Bernie Sanders: Betrayer

When the DNC rigged the nominations again in 2020, they voided any contract they had with Bernie Sanders - AND any loyalty that he owed them. Yet Sanders CHOSE to drop out early, let the rigging go unchallenged, and endorsed Joe Biden. He has threatened his delegates with loss of their status if they in any way protest the crimes of Biden and the DNC.

And now we discover that the Sanders' are close friends with the Bidens' and have dinner with them frequently.

There's no other interpretation for the facts: Bernie Sanders betrayed the millions of people who supported him, TWICE. Those who maintain blind loyalty to him nonetheless have no one to blame but themselves when they find themselves getting stabbed in the back by progressive "leaders" again and again.

Our only hope is revolution. Politics is the shell game of sociopaths.

June 2020 comments

The latest party line from DNC trolls is that we have to vote Blue to "retake the Senate". Apparently we're supposed to believe that if the Democrats get a majority in the Senate, they'll pass all sorts of progressive policies - like Medicare for All, UBI, a Federal jobs guarantee, and the Green New Deal.

You know. All the stuff that they absolutely refused to ever support before.

So we're supposed to support the Democratic Party? Seriously? The same Democratic Party that has done everything possible to BLOCK every progressive piece of legislation?

WHY?!?

There isn't time to "chip away". In ten years the planet passes the point of no return. Hundreds of millions will die, maybe billions, maybe EVERYBODY. Which means that we need to bring down the system within five years, AT MOST, if we're to have a prayer of saving humanity from extinction.

I don't understand why so many progressives are acting as if we have enough time to work through a political solution. We don't.

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Vote Blue, and then reform the Democrats? Won't work. The Dems work for the same masters as Trump. Their policies are the same, right down to the genocide of the human race.

And TIME IS RUNNING OUT. In ten years or less, the planet passes the point of no return - and human civilization is doomed. Do you really believe that we have time to elect Democrats and then try to persuade them to shut down the fossil fuel industry - much less take the massive long-term action needed to save us from the worst effects of climate change? In less than ten years?

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Biden is worse than Trump, actually. Their policies are virtually the same. Biden's more of a warmonger, though. If he's elected, we'll be at war with Venezuela and Syria (at least) within a year. He won't do a damned thing about climate change, because his fossil fuel donors wouldn't like that. So the planet and our species will be just as doomed under Biden as we are under Trump.

And don't forget, Biden was the major mover behind the Bankruptcy Bill that ruined millions of American families, the Crime Bill that jailed and enslaved millions of American citizens (mostly black ones), and voted for every single war he could.

The only difference is that the media will fall silent if Biden is President. He'll get a pass.

Lastly, Biden and the DNC destroyed democracy in America by blatantly rigging the Democratic primaries. That makes it personal. There's no way in HELL that I will give my vote or my approval to the people who stole our votes and our voices.

But if it's any consolation, it doesn't matter. Our votes don't matter. If voting could change the path that the world is on, it would be illegal. Trump and Biden are two sides of the same coin, and that coin is owned by the oligarchy.

THAT'S why we need a revolution. Because if we don't, humanity is going to go extinct.