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Because even if his brain worked, it wouldn’t matter. Biden is a puppet to the elite just like all of them are.
Would anything be different in the short or long term if we do discuss it?
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:
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?
Anyone know of any theory I could read to understand better the “pleasure” of being able to decipher liberal politics? Like deeper than just “they like to fit in” unless that’s the deepest it goes.
As a reformed lib, I can remember the feeling of “grasping” the happenings of politics and feeling good, and now that feeling is entirely gone with “getting” from the outside. How much does this play into politicians and policies? Just been thinking about it a lot. Maybe it has something to do with complexity and superiority complexes?
because he’s not trump. Biden is seen as a return to normalcy despite continuing the worst of trump’s policies and escalating where trump was seen as soft
the worst thing trump did in the eyes of liberals was be crude and obnoxiously ignorant even though his policies aligned with theirs at least 90%
who was talking about Biden’s senility in the first place? Only leftists correctly pointing out how he was a senile manufactured DNC candidate against Bernie and reactionaries hoping to sway votes for trump.
plus most left criticisms against Biden arent him being senile, its against his terrible policy decisions in his 40+ years of being in office and I haven’t seen any leftists stop pointing them out
it doesn’t matter if he’s senile if he keeps pushing for the interests of the good liberal kind of capital, :vote: or you’ll get another trump
