Joseph R. Biden has always been a stupid, stupid man. These days he's a tired, easily confused, old, stupid, stupid man. That would account for the otherwise insane idea that babbling out threats to go to war with Russia over the Ukraine will be a to increase his polling numbers. The idea is so bizarre that it took reading Chris Hedges before I even considered it.
When all else fails, when you are clueless about how to halt a 7.5% inflation rate, when your Build Back Better bill is gutted, when you renege on your promise to raise the minimum wage or forgive student debt, when you can’t halt the Republican suppression of voting rights, when you have no idea how to handle the pandemic which has claimed 900,000 lives – 16% of the world’s total deaths although we are less than 5% of the world’s population – when the stock market fluctuates on wild rollercoaster rides of highs and lows, when what little help the government offered to the labor force — half of whom, 80 million, experienced a period of unemployment last year — sees the termination of the extended unemployment benefits, rental assistance, forbearance for student loans, emergency checks, the moratorium on evictions and expansion of the child tax credits, when you watch passively as the ecocide gathers momentum, then you must make the public afraid of enemies, foreign and domestic.
You must manufacture an existential threat. Terrorists at home. Russians and Chinese abroad. Expand state power in the name of national security. Beat the drums of war. War is the antidote to divert public attention from government corruption and incompetence.
This is something that I can see Biden thinking. He's always thought that his agreeing with Republican blood-suckers and allying with them to pass anti-people legislation makes him a savvy player of the political game. It only means that he is a natural corporate tool. It certainly didn't make him popular with the US-American people. He had to be injected with mega-steroids to win the Democratic Primary. His attacks on Social Security and his work on a detestable bankruptcy bill, ... his whole legislative record has made him a singularly unpopular politician.
Anyway, ... Biden is showing his stupidity by thinking that the war-weary, economically exhausted, sickened by elite corruption, US-American electorate gives a fuck about the Ukraine. Biden doesn't really give a fuck about the Ukrainian people either. He's deliberately starving innocent Afghans to death. He's french-kissed Colombian death-squad leaders. He's assisting in the genocide in Yemen. He's a psychopathic monster. He's a disgusting hypocrite.
The Democrat's betrayal of their base and Biden's personal betrayal of promises that he could have done unilaterally through executive actions are going to see the party absolutely decimated in the mid-terms.
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Pretty much. It's a symptom of just how incapable of working the American political system is nowadays that the Democrats, faced with a political opponent that seems less interested in defeating them in elections than in crushing them forever as a political force and perhaps creating a dictatorship and putting them all in jail, and with groups inside their party supplying them with a platform that would be both very popular and good for the health of the overall economy and polity, allowing them to stave off destruction of various sorts . . . could not make themselves actually seriously pursue that platform, because it would inconvenience certain elites.
The USA is a big liner circling a massive whirlpool. As a dinghy tethered to that liner, I see the Canadian political project in our time as one of desperately sawing at the tether in hopes of not getting sucked in with them. Unfortunately, we have the Canadian wing of the Trumpenright (and their sponsors), whose political project is to steer hard for the whirlpool in hopes of beating the Americans there. And of course, most of the rest of the political class, whose project is "Whirlpool? What whirlpool?"
PLG,
Indeed. The Democrats had the most popular politician in the country running to be their candidate in 2020 and the party leadership's response was "How best to avoid such a catastrophe?"
They're delusional and insane.
Whatever it is that protects us from the worst of the USA's garbage political culture, it is weakening. Cutting the tether to the USA would require returning some economic activities back home as well as pursuing deep trade relations with other nations.
How much we'd be permitted to do this is unclear.
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