Biden-Harris, Genocide, and the Failure of Democrats to See Their Own Evils

For me, perhaps the most bizarre and disturbing behaviour of the Democrats is their denial of genocide, their failure to recognize genocide as a crime against humanity, their willingness to shrug off the atrocities of genocide because those in the Biden-Harris administration supporting and arming genocide are "not Trump."

This might be the most appalling evil committed by the Democrats during my lifetime.

Its previous rivals were bad enough. Democrats gave us the National Security Act of 1947. Democrats gave us the war against Vietnam. Democrats approved Reagan's NAFTA and destroyed America's industrial base. Democrats abandoned the American working- and middle-classes to bow before the professional managerial class. Democrats worked with neocon Republicans to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. Democrats worked with market-fundamentalist Republicans to financialize the American economy and to wipe out the United States as an economic world power. Democrats armed and supplied cash to the Zelensky regime in a proxy war against Russia. Democrats broke diplomatic ties with Russia, alienated China, and reinforced the necessity of BRICS for countries appalled by American dishonesty and stupidity.

All of these actions have led to political-economic isolation at home, and to a pile of corpses abroad. All of these actions are evil. But now, the Biden-Harris administration has gone even further, and the result is an Israeli genocide that Democrats apparently consider "normal" and "forgivable."

The world will not forgive. Whether American voters will forgive remains to be seen.

"But Trump! But Trump!" the Democrats will cry, as they have in recent years. What they fail to understand is that, to beat Trump and the Republicans, they must offer something more than Trump and the Republicans could even begin to promise: substantial improvements to the material conditions of American's lives; moral and ethical principles worth supporting; hope for a world that is not poised on the abyss of endless wars, unstoppable decline, and a towering stack of dead bodies.

In short, the Democrats would have done well to examine themselves, to correct their own policies and their own failings, but Democrats would rather blame everyone else on the planet than see themselves clearly.

And for this, Americans will suffer.

Trump vs Harris vs Republicans vs Democrats vs Americans

Scylla, meet Charybdis.

Charybdis, meet Scylla.

Americans, meet entropy

And please accept my sympathy.

We Are The Cause Of Genocide

“Had there been YouTube and Instagram and TikTok around Auschwitz, this is what we would have seen, people burning alive. And it’s beyond horrendous, it’s beyond comprehension.”

-- Dr. Gabor Mate, on Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon.

Why don't people hear this? Because they refuse to hear it.

Why don't people see this? Because they refuse to see it.

Here in the West, in our hypothetically "open" societies, we have the hypothetical freedom to reach moral conclusions at odds with our governments, the hypothetical freedom to be empathetic, and principled, and angry. We have no one to stop us.

Instead, we stop ourselves. We refuse to hear, we refuse to see. We are the cause of genocide.

By ourselves, we must overcome our moral weakness, our apathy, our cowardice, to oppose genocide. No one else will force us to wake the hell up.

More Stray Thoughts on the Hideous American Election

"Garbage"...? Quite a statement from a sitting president.

Given his regrettable cognitive impairment, Biden might not have intended to sabotage the Harris campaign.

But given his mean-spirited character (he is, after all, Genocide Joe), he might very well have intended to stab the backs of those who stabbed his. Consider them stabbed, Joe.

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What if Kamala Harris were honest?

"I know the ambitions, the aspirations, the dreams that exist in our community. Ambitions to win the support of neocon Republicans, to stamp out, once and for all, the remnants of a Democratic left, to isolate the United States globally, to make ourselves hateful psychopaths to the rest of this planet. Aspirations to fuel proxy wars, to make countries fight and die for the sake of our own narcissistic self-interest, to provide cash and bombs for mass murder and genocide. Dreams that drive us to turn economic rivals into hated enemies, to clamp down on anti-war protests and freedom of speech, to disgust voters of all political inclinations, to wipe out the Democratic party for years to come.

"My plan is to build an opportunity for Western collapse and thermonuclear suicide. Let's burn together, all of us, for the joy of burning, for the ambitions, aspirations, and dreams of World War Three, of joyful human extinction."

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If the Democrats had really considered Trump to be the danger they declare him to be, they would have allowed people to choose amongst delegates for a candidate most likely to beat him.

Instead, the DNC appointed a candidate of limited experience, limited intellect, limited empathy, limited vocabulary, limited rhetorical skill, limited appeal to wide sections of the American electorate, limited awareness of policy options, and above all, a candidate complicit with genocide. Genocide!

What's more, this appointed candidate has stumbled through a campaign that seems intent on winning over neocon Republicans, while driving away voters who have traditionally chosen Democrats.

If, in the end, Trump turns out be as dangerous as the Democrats maintain, then the Democrats, through their own stupidity or malice or smug over-confidence, will be remembered as a party that abandoned the American people. That will be their legacy.

Stray Thoughts Before the Looming American Election

Tribalism, idolatry, an utter lack of self-awareness, a pathological disregard for those "other" people we murder as we pursue complacent comforts and psychotic dreams of power:

The four horsemen of Western collapse.

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If the polls reflect reality, then one half of the voting public in America will bow before a party that arms and supports genocide right now, today, while the other half will choose a party that merely promises to arm and support genocide.

No matter which party wins, Americans lose.

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When Trump wins, do you suppose the Democrats will suddenly discover that genocide (GASP!) is a crime against humanity, that aiding genocide (WHAT?!?) is evil, and that, by sending weapons and military support to Israel (HOW DARE HE?!?), Trump has become a war criminal who must be prosecuted?

I know, I know: it's wishful thinking, because genocide is a bipartisan policy; but still, given that the Democratic party are seasoned hypocrites, why not use their hypocrisy to save lives... and to stop Trump?

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When Trump wins -- or, to be precise, when Harris loses -- American voters are likely to turn against each other, to blame each other for the crisis of Trump.

This would be not only unfair, but a tactical mistake.

The Democratic party expected voters to legitimise the Biden-Harris policies of proxy war, direct confrontation with armed nuclear powers, and genocide. No sane voter on the planet would have swallowed these options, and no one should blame them for staying at home on election day.

At the same time, Americans faced with Trump in office will have to realize that they are now on their own, that any political opposition to Trump will have to come from the American people themselves.

Americans might discover, as they did during Trump's first term, that the threat of Trump is nowhere near as apocalyptic as the professional managerial classes had insisted; that Trump, like every American president of our day, is constrained and compelled by national security priorities, imperial structures, and financial demands of the donor class. Yet even if this becomes true, Americans will remain under the rule of this imperial warfare consensus, and will be no better off than they were under previous Democrat and Republican administrations. Once again, Americans will be left to fend for themselves.

When American voters blame each other for political outcomes, they leave untouched the people, the institutions, and the ideologies that have slowly made American lives intolerable. Without interruption from the street, this political-economic decay of the United States will go on until the country falls apart, or until fascism steps in to sort things out on its own terms.

Either way, the American people can no longer afford the luxury of hating each other. Somehow, against the odds, Americans must learn to speak with each other, to hear each other, to work together against the mindless, heartless forces that rule them.