Calling people ‘tankies’ and ‘fascists pretending to be anarchists’ does nothing to change these acts. And it does nothing to work towards the nearly universal goals of the working class; goals you and every ‘tankie’ you criticize share.
As the current admin is a touchy subject for you people, let us take a quick, objective look back at a simpler time.
What was materially different for the average person in the George W. Bush administration vs the Barack Obama administration?
Was it worker’s rights? No, not really, bothpresidents gorged themselves on union busting. While the minimum wage did get raised once, technically during Obama’s term (though the legislation passed during W’s admin) neither president advocated for this; and both parties actually fought heavily against this increase at the time while only relenting as a way to offset Bill Clinton’s 2008 Financial Crisis.. Don’t get me wrong with that last quip, Republicans had plenty to do with it, but lets not forget Clinton signed it, and democrats largely stamped it.
Was it… immigrants rights? No. Obama was the deporter-in-chief, even under the best interpretations, whose numbers have yet to be matched and had only one significant rival in world history. Oh but DACA was good right? Oh wait wrong link, sorry. Don’t get me wrong Trump is harsher in this regard… in that white people can now be victims. Nothing Trump has done is new.
How about foreign policy? … Nope. We know the answer to that. Don’t even need links do we. Obama’s legacy of violence showed the world the US does not avoid civilian deaths, in fact we explicitly, wantonly target civilians. Many in the world knew this already, after all exporting violence is what the US is known for outside the west, but Obama made it clear that George W Bush was not a fluke. Republicans were not the source of violence. It was the US itself that was violent.
Gas prices were lower. Sometimes. Under Obama. And food was cheaper. Under Bush. Same amount of insider trading regardless, same corrupt cabinets, same donors to both presidential campaigns, practically the same appointees…
It really does go on. But I’m bored and you probably have other replies expanding on this by now.
Corrupt fascist pedophile billionaires actually did and do actively cheat to get into power. Any Rothschild wields more power than Trump; and billionaires actively bribe all ‘seats’ of power to make sure your vote does not matter, period. In times where lobbying doesn’t get them enough power, or they’re bored, they just buy their way into office. This isn’t just in the US, it’s everywhere with ‘liberal western democracy.’.
Because ‘democracy’ under capitalism cannot function. It has never functioned. It will never function.[1]
Calling people ‘tankies’ and ‘fascists pretending to be anarchists’ does nothing to change these acts. And it does nothing to work towards the nearly universal goals of the working class; goals you and every ‘tankie’ you criticize share.
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This whole argument hinges on the fact that things never changed when different parties come into power, which is demonstrably false.
As the current admin is a touchy subject for you people, let us take a quick, objective look back at a simpler time.
What was materially different for the average person in the George W. Bush administration vs the Barack Obama administration?
Was it worker’s rights? No, not really, both presidents gorged themselves on union busting. While the minimum wage did get raised once, technically during Obama’s term (though the legislation passed during W’s admin) neither president advocated for this; and both parties actually fought heavily against this increase at the time while only relenting as a way to offset Bill Clinton’s 2008 Financial Crisis.. Don’t get me wrong with that last quip, Republicans had plenty to do with it, but lets not forget Clinton signed it, and democrats largely stamped it.
Was it… quality of life? No, not really. If anything Obama made life worse for the average American. with wealth inequality soaring at the fastest rate in human history, not just American history, until the pandemic at least. I wonder why that period had such a high jump.
Was it… immigrants rights? No. Obama was the deporter-in-chief, even under the best interpretations, whose numbers have yet to be matched and had only one significant rival in world history. Oh but DACA was good right? Oh wait wrong link, sorry. Don’t get me wrong Trump is harsher in this regard… in that white people can now be victims. Nothing Trump has done is new.
How about foreign policy? … Nope. We know the answer to that. Don’t even need links do we. Obama’s legacy of violence showed the world the US does not avoid civilian deaths, in fact we explicitly, wantonly target civilians. Many in the world knew this already, after all exporting violence is what the US is known for outside the west, but Obama made it clear that George W Bush was not a fluke. Republicans were not the source of violence. It was the US itself that was violent.
Gas prices were lower. Sometimes. Under Obama. And food was cheaper. Under Bush. Same amount of insider trading regardless, same corrupt cabinets, same donors to both presidential campaigns, practically the same appointees…
It really does go on. But I’m bored and you probably have other replies expanding on this by now.
As it is a response to the unarguable fact I posted before, I’m not even gonna bother to read this, peace out.