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What are you asking for? Do you want us to have a minimum amount of “draw a clock” memes on the site at all times? Do you want us to call a meeting of all leftists and put out some propaganda?
We’ve had senile presidents before though. Reagan was gone during his first term. It’s been discussed for decades. But certainly there is some state of the site/internet where you feel that the topic of discussion is discussed enough and I’m asking what that looks like. How are you gauging that it’s not a continual topic of discussion? You don’t see any recent threads about it so that means it’s not being thought about?
Because utlimately, you’re talking about a symbol of decline, not something that is actually increasing the rate of decline by a significant degree. As PorkrollPosadist said, the presidency has always served the interests of capital. Sometimes actively, sometimes with a president who is senile or simply uninterested im the job.
I think as far as people on the left are concerned, it doesn’t reveal anything surprising. The President was always a figurehead and Capital was always running the show. Seeing the empire administered by the bureaucracies, lobbies, think tanks, and corporations instead of on the direct orders of some guy in a suit might be shocking to some liberals (and therefor, might have some rhetorical use), but it is about the least shocking thing in the world from our perspective.
As far as the people on the right go, Biden can’t be portrayed as the personification of evil if it’s clear he doesn’t even know what day of the week it is. Every failure of the administration needs to be a deliberate act of malice aimed at god-fearing white conservatives in particular. The “Biden’s asleep at the wheel” narrative isn’t particularly useful for them because once you remove the “great man” from the picture, all you’re left with are the underlying systems to analyze. I’m sure it comes up a lot in memes and stuff, but it isn’t a thread that any reactionaries with institutional power are particularly interested in unraveling.
Like, if the man at the top doesn’t actually matter, what has changed about the justice department or the armed forces between Trump and Biden’s administration? Neither Liberals or Conservatives are interested in opening this can of worms because doing so undermines the perceived power of the elected office, and by extension, the perceived power of the electoral process and the perception that we live in a democracy at all. The President must have agency, because if he doesn’t, what the hell are we even voting for?
So from the Liberals, we hear the narrative of a cool and collected Biden staring Putin in the eye and winning in a battle of wits when in actuality the Pentagon and NATO are just acting on their own initiative doing whatever the hell they want, and doing it very sloppily. From the Conservatives, we hear that Biden is an evil Globalist mastermind trying to start World War Three while deliberately tying the hands of any patriots who want to prevent the coming White Genocide / Sharia Law / Stalinist Totalitarianism.
We’re just left sitting here like, :yea:
