biden will win, the budding leftist movement that built up throughout the trump era will die overnight, neoliberalism will reign triumphant again and all socialists will be shunned again for another generation; Biden, Obama, and Hillary will be hailed as the greatest American heroes of our time; libs will instantly stop caring about kids in cages, imperialism, class politics etc. The overwhelming narrative will be that Trump was just a aberration and that Biden saved American democracy

  • Bob [he/him,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Your zeal for American disappointment is laudable, but your idealistic framing is ironically not blackpilled enough.

    It doesn't matter if libs win or whatever the fuck, and it never did. The imperial core is insanely propagandized, but even moreso (and worse than being a pesky twitter lib), the American population by and large has totally checked out and doesn't think it matters or that they affect anything.

    It's not that leftism in the US will die overnight. It's that if it does, that tells you it never even existed in the first place as anything other than an aesthetic container for liberal bourgeois society to defeat conservative bourgeois society for control.

    This means we arent back at square one, it means we never left it.

    But, on the bright side this also means none of this election shit matters, what matters is the material conditions, and not even the lib absorbtion of crisis can save capitalism from the choice it necessarily will make. (Fascism or otherwise.)

    We gotta organize to make sure it goes our way. That's the only real leftist project in the US. If you think this election is even a blip on that timeline you're a fukn lib.