Yeah, at the end of the day dem politicians belong to the same class as Republicans. What are their constituents going to do, vote them out of office?

Also, these Dems realize that if there’s no elections, while these Republicans are in power, they’re in power. They can’t step aside just for some antiIsrael leftist to take power. They’re enacting their own pathetic power grab.

[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The bourgeois class often makes strategic blunders due to their own moralism and ego though

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's still no real opposition to any of this though. People still talk about "Democrats this, elected officials that, constitutional rights, call your representative, sign a petition, Trump Trump Trump, blah blah blah". I don't think there's really a large number of people who are completely done with these institutions and organizations. They're just begging to be brought back in by politicians saying the right things. How many times do I have to hear people blame literally everything the US does on "Donald Trump", as if he has dictatorial control over the military and everything else. There's no discussion of military leadership or other state institutions being bad. Once a Democrat gets back in, everyone will forgive and forget. And then we can all sing Deutschland Uber Alles and enjoy our imperial superprofits knowing we did our part.

[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is clearly an act of class war, of the ruling class creating another mechanism to beat the working class and poor into submission. By escalating the class war, making it more acute and then failing to respond to it within the official system - they are creating the exact conditions in which a real opposition will form. There's "no real opposition" because historically we've had a slow-burning rightward lurch and less acute, more disparate class punishment mechanisms and avenues in the electoral system to slightly mitigate the suffering.

It may be a strategic error longterm for the ruling class to start escalating the class war outside the domain of politics into the cities and streets, or it might work out just fine for them. It's still a large risk that they don't really need to take for any particular reason other than scapegoating and their own reactionary grievances and bigotries and ignorance. They risk activating the apolitical working class and lumpen into civil unrest and eventual organization, when they could have just kept everything business as usual and just slowly arrested and deported people in a more restrained and orderly fashion like Obama.