• OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    People keep saying this, but America's empire was declining in the Obama era. It's not as simple as to just increase military spending and put more troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. The military industrial complex is also not a hivemind. It's mostly a handful of capitalists who are calling the shots and have their own agendas at play.

    Biden and Harris are likely going to be too busy and occupied with their problems in the country with the highest unemployment and worst economic conditions since the great depression. It don't matter how high the stock market is. People are unemployed, starving, getting evicted and more than ever, have nothing to lose and are willing to get out in the streets.

    He has made it clear with his staff that they are going to push mass austerity and are just going to escalate the domestic problems in the country. With Harris, they most likely will be pushing some 'tough on crime' bipartisan bill with the GOP to stomp out the protest movement by jailing protesters indefinitely, threatening life sentences and they'll probably try to make protesting illegal all together.

    We're most likely not going to get any real reforms. Biden has made it clear he isn't going to be moved left. He'll end up pushing some shitty COVID relief bill that is just tax credits and it will come at the expense of getting to defund social security or medicaid which he has been wanting to do forever.