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Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · 11/2022 · Tröts: 4.026 · Folger: 9.348
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You may or may not agree with the ultimate recommendation of this essay, but it does make some crucial points about the pretense of “democracy” in the USA’s repressive two-party system…
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Biden’s refusal to step aside is a microcosm of an entire civilization at an impasse.
We all know that industrial capitalism is accelerating climate change along with mass extinctions and ecological collapse, but we keep delegating our agency to representatives who answer to the corporations and don’t give a damn about us.
We know that entrusting our future to a ruling class that consists of some of the most self-serving people on the planet is not going to make us safe, but we keep voting for them, and working for them, and buying their wares.
Now we are entering the late stages of disaster capitalism, in which wars, economic crises, and environmental disasters are displacing people by the million all around the planet — and it’s no longer possible to avoid recognizing the consequences of this approach, any more than it is possible to deny the fact of Biden’s age and dim prospects of beating Trump.
The problem is not that a single senescent man has his wizened hands on the steering wheel and refuses to release it. The problem is bigger than the loyal functionaries prepared to go along with whatever the Democratic leadership decides. It’s bigger than the entire Democratic Party.
It implicates every rank-and-file voter who believed it would be enough to cast a ballot every year or two and hope for the best, everyone who is looking for a leader to solve the problems of the world on our behalf.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://crimethinc.com/2024/07/11/why-stop-at-biden-the-center-cannot-hold
#USA #Politics #Capitalism #Environment #ClimateChange
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