{"id":253141,"date":"2024-07-15T15:12:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=253141"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:12:54","slug":"instant-recoil","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/instant-recoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant recoil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outpourings of condemnation from world leaders at the ‘horrific and heinous’ assassination attempt on Donald Trump, while Biden with dazzling political acumen called it ‘not appropriate’. In truth a lot of people must have privately wished the attempt had succeeded. Trump is an abject and repulsive metaphor for capitalism’s screw-you ideology. But the rich naively love Trump<\/a> and dismiss concerns about his MAGAlomania as Trump Derangement Syndrome. And many poor Americans think he’s their friend, like turkeys welcoming Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

The shooter, barely out of his teens, wasted his life for a separate delusion. Politicians, even ones like Trump, can’t change how capitalism fundamentally works, so shooting him wouldn’t make any difference. If the collective misery of the 99% is ever to end, capitalism itself needs putting down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-253141","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/253141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}