This is from a report put out by the Transitional Integrity Project, a "bipartisan group of over 100 current and former senior government and campaign leaders, academics, journalists, polling experts and former federal and state government."
In actuality, the project is all Democrats or "Never Trump" Republicans, including:
- John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff
- Donna Brazile, former Democratic National Committee Acting Chair
- Michael Steele, former chair of the Republican National Committee
- Max Boot, journalist
- David Frum, journalist
This is not a joke. Liberal media has been covering this story and linking to this article [1] [2] [3] But they only mention the parts about Trump refusing to concede.
Right-wing media is talking about this angle, where Biden refuses to concede. Workers must have a full understanding of what is going on, so we can prepare & respond to the coming months.
I know some people here will be like, "oh that can't be right, aren't Democratic and Republicans on the same team." No, they are not. They both want to crush any working class power, but there are serious contradictions within the bourgeois class.
One faction of the bourgeoisie wanted to slowly contain China & Russia through building exclusionary trade agreements (TPP) and maintaining relationships with Europe. This would build towards world war at a slower pace. They see war with China & Russia right now as suicide for their class.
Another faction want to crush China & Russia immediately because they recognize the rate at which these two nations are building their productive base. They see a war later down the line as harder to win.
As the contradiction of capitalism heightens, and the American Empire fumbles under Trump, the former faction is under more and more pressure to act. Their "Russian collusion" plan and impeachment failed tremendously.
Now we are in a position where neither faction will recognize the election results, which will likely be the end of "liberal democracy" in the US.
I've taken a lens that's focused more on the economic analysis but we've arrived at the same conclusion. there's a deep split in the bourgeoisie.
Yeah I think we're all on the same wavelength here in terms of what's plaguing the ruling class and why nothing seems to be done. Interestingly (and obviously, lol) this is one of the primary preconditions of collapse that Richard Lachmann in his awesome book, First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers. We're headed for a fun decade.
a split in the ruling class, paralysis in the state, and economic depression is a recipe as old as civilization. thanks for the rec, I'll check it out.
Yeah it's a really great book. Builds on Arrighi's The Long Twentieth Century (which is also wonderful, if you've never read it) by explaining that while Arrighi's thesis of decline of great powers is great, it tends to treat the ruling political class as a monolith rather than his more nuanced class based analysis that exposes rifts within that ruling elite that often trigger the collapse.
oh fantastic. yeah, read that a few years back and the kind of monolithic treatment was exactly what I didn't like (though to be fair, that notion is hegemonic for obvious reasons).
Can we normalize linking to libgen like that?
This isn't reddit which has "ban on site for pirating or making fun of slave owners" policy.
PIRATES YE BE WELCOME HERE
Be the change you wish to see! I always link to libgen if I recommend a book, since it reduces the friction of somebody being like "actually yeah, I'd love to read that" tremendously. No reason you can't as well!
It's blocked in Sweden lol, guess I could get a VPN though