not voting for trump but low key hope biden doesnt win so the material conditions of a failing America will be on full display
Biden:
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Slow the fall of material conditions
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Much better for minority Americans, not because he’ll do something, but because he won’t encourage non-state violence
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Will kick off at least one imperialist war
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Nation still in crisis in 4 years
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Democrats will not place a primary challenger, despite Biden having no chance of winning reelection
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Next president will have similar positions to Trump but will be more competent
Trump:
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Accelerate
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Brownshirts are going to kill people
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Wants imperialist wars, but unable so far to actually execute them
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Will attempt to end democracy, might succeed
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If we somehow make it to the next election, the next president will be a New Deal style dem
Revolution:
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Obviously better
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Doesn’t matter who’s president
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Assuming it’s the most likely outcome doesn’t absolve you from figuring out the right choice for the potential futures where it doesn’t come
I think people really overestimate the extent to which a Biden administration is going to be able to slow down the worldwide crisis of capitalism.
Big time. Biden is a dottering fool who will bring with him the best talent and funding the professional political consultancy circuit has to offer - and still, I think his administration will snap like a twig under the sheer social and economic forces at play here. Everyone seems to think Biden will come in and satiate everyone with faux-progressive rhetoric and modest reforms the way Obama did, but Biden is no Obama, we fell for that trick once already, and the conditions today are entirely worse.
But even stagnation would be better then acceleration. Of course, only if you aren’t an accellerationist.
Acceleration is only a good idea if you’re ready to handle whatever it is you’re accelerating towards, and I don’t think the left is anywhere near organized enough for that. Things are bad enough that people are being radicalized right now – radicalizing more people and organizing them under an impotent Biden presidency is probably a better bet than going full fascist and hoping the nascent left can figure it out on the fly.
Yea, I think even stagnating that process would require a Herculean effort, and it’s more likely that Biden actively plays into the conditions for further crisis.
He won’t have any affect on the increasing exploitation of the working class and declining conditions as power is shoveled towards capital.
But he’s not ideologically opposed to listening to experts, so he’ll do better at managing the pandemic, natural disasters, that sort of thing. (And by he, I mostly mean the cabinet and VP that the party selects for him, since he’s a senile old man.)
What if Biden steps down/dies at some point while in office and his VP takes over? You’d have to expect whoever it is would have a better shot at re-election than he would.
