Biden’s Presidency

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  • #209683
    Anonymous
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    Let’s see what is going to happen because Joe Biden is a chameleon as Barrack Obama, he does not act so abruptly as Donald Trump. He is the new smiling face of US capitalism. If Warren and Sanders accept a position with Joe Biden they are going to be an accomplice of the criminal acts and civil wrongdoing  of his cabinet

    #209733
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Speculation on Biden’s cabinet appointments are already in the media but i will desist from adding to them since we will very soon know for sure. But if the rumours are correct, it confirms those who say it is Obama 2.0, tried and tested status quo officials from the Obama years. Capitalism is a safe pair of hands.

     

    #209738
    ALB
    Keymaster

    Of course even if Bernie, Pocahontas, AOC and the whole squad were appointed to Biden’s cabinet that would made no difference as in the end capitalism’s economic law of profits first has to be accepted — and applied — by any capitalist government, no matter how well-meaning or sincere those who compose it might be. Actually, come to think of it, as they don’t understand how capitalism works, a government made up of that lot stand a good chance of making a mess of it.

    #209744
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    Was talking to a trotskyist mate of mine at the weekend who was incandescent at the fact that Trump wouldn’t accept the election result. I asked him if the same thing should apply to elections to constituent assemblies and he produced the usual, oh well that was different, it was a moving landscape, a few mumbles about capitalist elections, smashing the state and then went strangely quiet.

    #209745
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

     Pocahontas,

    Tsk Tsk, ALB

    #209746
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    My point was more the fact that once you vote for the lesser evil, it remains an evil and need not shift to become an even lesser evil

    #209820
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    The Biden administration now is taking shape…and still no left progressives included although some are being approved by the liberal left.

    #209826
    PartisanZ
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    #209828
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    It was always the Democratic Party strategy to cry wolf so that the fox could win

    #209829
    Anonymous
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    The other side also called for civil war but it is not going to take place either, Joe Biden might confront some small right-wingers guerrillas, but they can confront a stronger force than them which is the force of the capitalist state.

    #209836
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I wonder what the Maoists, Trotskyists and Anarchists are going to say about Joe Biden militarist cabinet?

    #209903
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    From the media response they are all a-flutter with flattery approving Biden’s appointments, claiming they please both the conservative and progressive wings of the Democratic Party and full of talk of diversity – as if we don’t know how meaningless that is with Priti Patel

    I note however that who would be the labor secretary is still not announced, the cabinet job Bernie Sanders has made no secret that he wants. Maybe he will get it but perhaps he will not because of his pro-labor positions

    Sanders supports unionization in Amazon

    ‘I Stand With the Amazon Warehouse Workers’: Bernie Sanders Throws Support Behind Bold Union Drive in Alabama | Common Dreams News

    #209907
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/24/shameful-and-concerning-he-even-being-considered-says-aoc-rahm-emanuel-floated-role?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Emai

    Shameful and Concerning He Is Even Being Considered,’ Says AOC as Rahm Emanuel Floated for Role in Biden Cabinet

    “The thing about covering up the murder of Laquan McDonald is that it disqualifies you from holding any type of public office. Forever,” said Rep.-elect Cori Bush.

     

    Were we wrong, or were right about the so-called lesser evil?

    Pretty soon we are  going to see the left ( Maoists, Trotskyists, Anarchists, etc. etc. )  on the streets complaining about Joe Biden without publishing a self-critique, we do not have to do that because we do not follow leaders

     

    #209927
    Anonymous
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    #209931
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    I think this article another where Sanders is making his case for the Labor Secretary job.

    How do we avoid future authoritarians? Winning back the working class is key | US elections 2020 | The Guardian

    Is it also a veiled coded message to Biden to deliver? If so, it is short on strategies and tactics.

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