Bidens regering zal veel gewelddadiger zijn dan die van Obama: ‘linkse Democraten’ moeten nu al met verzet beginnen

CaitlinJohnstone verwacht dat de Biden administratie gewelddadiger zal zijn
dan die van Obama en dat zal leiden tot de voorwaarden die het een
‘tweede Trump’ (of zelfs Trump) mogelijk zal maken om de verkiezingen
over 4 jaar te winnen. Caitlin ziet het als een teruggang in de tijd,
vlak voordat de Democraten werden verslagen door Trump.

Terecht merkt Caitlin op dat linkse
Democraten nu al moeten beginnen met het verzet tegen de Biden
administratie, zoals Biden nu al bezig is om alles wat naar links
ruikt en zeker de leiders van de linkse Democraten, Bernie Sanders en
Elizabeth Warren buiten zijn regering te houden en alle plannen die
ze hadden bij een eventuele verkiezingswinst door de
papiervernietiger te halen……

Niet
voor niets dat Biden vrouwen aanstelt in zijn administratie, daar dit
al als links/progressief wordt gezien door zowel de linkse als de conservatieve (neoliberale) tak van de Democraten (waar de laatsten uiteraard niet zo blij mee zijn)…… Daarbij is Kamala Harris als Biden een oorlogsmisdadiger, zij moet de zwarte
bevolking behagen en lokken voor de verkiezingen over 4
jaar en kan door haar recente agressieve geschiedenis rekenen op de steun van de door de Republikeinen beheerste senaat….. Bovendien haalt Biden met Harris ook nog eens een aardig
deel van de bevolking binnen die van oorsprong uit Midden- en
Zuid-Amerika komt. Kortom ‘3 vliegen in 1 valse klap……’

Eigenlijk
haalt Biden nog veel meer groepen binnen, daar hij de wapenindustrie
al veel winsten heeft beloofd met zijn oorlogstaal tegen Venezuela,
Iran en Rusland…… China zal hij noodgedwongen blijven aanpakken daar
hij zich anders de woede van werkloze arbeiders en het conservatieve,
ofwel neoliberale deel van de Democraten op de hals haalt….. Bovendien heeft aankomend vicepresident Harris al belooft de ‘koude oorlog’ met China in stand te houden….. (tot groot genoegen van de Republikeinen)

Voorts
haalt Caitlin het boek van Obama aan, memoires van zijn
presidentschap en de aanloop daartoe, dat nu in de winkels
ligt (zal daar later nog een bericht over brengen). Onder andere noemt Caitlin de
uitlatingen van Obama over de meer dan belachelijke ‘oorlog tegen
terreur’, waar hij stelt dat hij deze oorlog door George W. Bush begonnen ten volle steunde en nog steunt, terwijl die oorlog
juist met grootschalige terreur werd en wordt uitgevoerd en een groot
aantal terroristen heeft gekweekt, om nog maar te zwijgen over de 2,5 miljoen doden die dit heeft opgeleverd siunds 2001…… (en dat cijfer is nog buiten de 3.000 mensen die zouden zijn omgekomen bij de aanvallen op de Twin Towers, waarover nu meer dan duidelijk is dat deze werd geregisseerd door de CIA en de NSA…….)

Biden
Will Likely Be Worse Than Obama. The Left Must Lead The Backlash, Or
The Right Will.

by Caitlin
Johnstone

It
looks like a safe bet that Joe Biden will be sworn in on January 20th
after successfully campaigning on returning the murderous and
oppressive Orwellian US empire back to its pre-Trump “normal”.

The
problem with this, apart from the obvious fact that it was an
embarrassingly
close victory
only made possible by the Covid outbreak, is that returning to the
pre-Trump “normal” is returning to the exact positions
which created Trump. It’s like using a time machine to prevent a
train wreck, but only going back to one millisecond before the train
wreck occurred.

It
is clear that Trump’s election was the
result of the easily exploited dissatisfaction
caused by years of neoliberal austerity at home and neoconservative
bloodshed abroad which Obama forcefully expanded and facilitated
throughout two terms as president. Trump voters famously
defended
opting for the reality TV star over the anointed establishment
favorite Hillary Clinton as a middle finger to the Beltway orthodoxy
which did nothing but enrich the “swamp” Trump pretended
to oppose
on the campaign trail while ordinary Americans suffered.

Obama
openly defends his murderous drone wars in his new book.

He
also praised parts of Bush’s bogus “War on Terror,”
writing, “Unlike some on the left, I’d never engaged in
wholesale condemnation of the Bush administration’s approach to
counterterrorism” https://t.co/73kiSL4MNp

— Ben
Norton (@BenjaminNorton) November
17, 2020

And
from all appearances it looks like Biden is going to be worse.

Unlike
Obama, Biden did not campaign on hope and change, he campaigned on
opposing
the socialist inclinations of Sanders progressives
and an aggressive foreign
policy
of planetary
domination.
He assured rich donors that nothing
will fundamentally change
under his presidency and his transition team is full of corporate
sociopaths,
war
pigs
and propagandists.
Biden has been a corporatist
warmongering authoritarian
throughout his entire career, and as his mental
capacity
continues to deteriorate he will function as nothing more than an
empty vessel for his establishment handlers to advance their most
pernicious agendas through.

If
I prove right about this, the Biden administration will
generate backlash just like that which arose in response to the Obama
administration, and that backlash will
be more severe than its previous iteration. This is absolutely
guaranteed. You can only oppress, neglect and enrage a population so
much before the discontent begins to grow.

There
is absolutely nothing American leftists can do to prevent this
backlash from coming. They will have absolutely no say in this
administration’s policies or behavior; BidenCorp has no reason to
listen to them, has made no pretense of having any interest in
listening to them, and is even freezing
Sanders and Warren
out of cabinet roles already.

All
US leftists will have any control over is whether this backlash will
break to the left, or if it will break to the far right.

Wars

The only normal we can go back to https://t.co/Rh2MBfGt7v

— M.I.A
(@MIAuniverse) November
15, 2020

Contrary
to what many mainstream liberals seem to have been imagining,
American racism and far right extremism did not begin with Trump, and
will not end with Trump. The white supremacists, xenophobes,
ethnonationalists, QAnon cultists and right wing militias are not
going anywhere after Biden takes office, and the backlash against his
administration and its worst impulses will be inflamed and co-opted
by mainstream Republican narrative managers. This will set the stage
for something a lot uglier than Trump down the road if it’s
successful.

What
the left can do is get ahead of the game. Take control of the
anti-Biden, anti-establishment pushback by leading the
charge–sooner, more aggressively, and more compellingly than the far
right does. Use the awfulness of the Biden administration to ignite a
true leftward zeitgeist in mainstream America that is so strong it
eclipses the inevitable rightist backlash in energy and appeal.

We
already know the American left has the ability to pull this off. The
grassroots, populist support for Bernie Sanders during his two
primary campaigns has been one of the most energized and inspired
political forces I’ve ever witnessed, consistently forcing aggressive
responses
from the establishment narrative managers
to contradict the damage it did to their preferred candidates.

The
problem with Bernie Twitter and the rest of his powerful support base
is that it only exists for a few months at a time, fizzling out when
it becomes clear that their candidate has had the door shut to him
and then reluctantly diverted into support for the establishment
candidate under the guidance of Sanders himself.

The
only thing more depressing than watching Bernie Twitter devolve from
soaring energy and inspiration to petty sectarianism and infighting
is watching it happen a second time.

— Caitlin
Johnstone (@caitoz) September
2, 2020

But
imagine if that did not happen. Imagine if the US left realized how
extremely urgent it is to control the unavoidable backlash against
the Biden/Harris administration so that the right does not and built
momentum in a healthy direction instead, not for a few months but for
years on end. Seizing every disgusting, ridiculous and hilarious
thing this government does and attacking it, lampooning it, mocking
it, creating funny and interesting content absolutely wrecking it.

An
actual, energized counterculture could be created which could reshape
US culture as a whole. The Breitbart
crowd recognizes
that politics is downstream from culture while the left has generally
failed to make this connection, which is arguably why their guy is in
the White House right now and the left’s guy isn’t. A Biden
administration will provide ample fodder for attacks against status
quo politics, and this can be used to galvanize America’s hidden
progressive impulses
into a movement vastly greater than any one candidate.

But
the ball needs to start rolling on this now.
Not after the Georgia runoffs, not after Biden takes office, not
after the midterms: now.
The longer US leftists wait to start pushing this thing forward, the
less of a head start you’ll have on the rightists while they’re
fixated on Trump’s recounts and legal challenges. You’ll only be able
to lead the backlash if you get in early and hit the ground running
as fast as you can.

If
we know anything for certain, it’s that US power structures find it
infinitely preferable to deal with a right-populist movement that can
be appeased by some obnoxious tweets and an 8chan psyop than with
real leftist populism. They’re more than happy to throw the far right
a tax cut and some immigration restrictions, but real revolution can
only come from the left. There is an opportunity to create an opening
for that to occur, but it needs to happen before this thing can be
steered rightward.

I
know I’m regarded as a bit of a crackpot in some leftist circles; I’m
the girl a lot of lefties read in private but don’t share in public.
But this is a really important idea that needs to get out there, and
I’m hoping it reaches the eyes of some leftist thought leaders who
can advance it in their own words in their own way. This is very
urgent and the more people understand this the better shot we’ll all
have at creating a healthy world for everyone. Please get thinking
about this, everyone.

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