Guessing Games

Trump is a product and sign of U.S. capitalism’s exhaustion. The long, cozy governmental alternation between GOP and Democrats after the trauma of the 1930s Great Depression had achieved its purpose. It had undone FDR’s redistribution of wealth from the top to the middle and the bottom. It had “fixed” that problem by reversing the redistribution of wealth and income. The ideological cover for that “fix” was bipartisan demonization of domestic socialism combined with bipartisan pursuit of Cold War with the USSR. The major GOP vs. Democratic Party dispute concerned the modes and extents of governmental support for private capitalism (as in Keynes vs. Friedman, etc.). That minor squabble got raised to the status of “the major issue” for politicians, journalists, and academics to debate because they caved to the taboo on debates over capitalism vs. socialism.--RDW

It's not us versus the GOP.  It's us versus the Democrats and the GOP.  Driving that point through the thick skulls of some people is a formidable challenge. Because there is no real choice among candidates that might appeal to the left, we're given the "no option" election as usual.

It's fairly clear that Biden knows his role among the D-side's pols, AKA, the party's power-elite.  If he beats Trump in the GE his purpose will have been rendered.  If he can beat Trump, which is the wager of the century, his handlers (he's not capable of a coherent thought himself) will enact the soft coup.

Biden, all in on the strategy, will have served his purpose.

Soon thereafter, he will resign for health reasons and his VEEP choice will take over.  Given the times, and not logic, I'm guessing Kamala Harris.

All of this is predicated on Biden's supposed electability, of course. Is that part of the miasma even real?


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