“Humanity need something new — something utterly different. And if we, the radical ones, don’t fight for it, if we don’t make visible, it will never happen.
“If we, the radical ones, answer calls from the Democrats, we would make ourselves part of the problem. And we should not be part of that problem.
“We must embody a radical negation and help gather the core for a radical solution. We must be conscious.”
by Nando Sims (Mike Ely)
The Democrats have zero argument. They are the party of Guantanamo now. They are the party that escalates the war in Afghanistan/Pakistan. Their jets and navies back up a murderous order in Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Their diplomats, Israeli allies and war-planners target Iran.
Their response to the oil spill was to put BP in charge of cleanup — and to shield the oil companies and future drilling because of capitalist logic.
They have given a trillion dollar blank check to vampire banks, a debt that will bankrupt social security and tattered social nets. “Too big to fail”? While none of the people are too small to stomp.
They have escalated the heartless deportations of immigrants — in widespread communities, in factories, at the border.
The Democrats’ only hope is to point hysterically to the country’s ugliest fringe, the Tea Party, and proclaim “We are your protection against them.”
Fuck off.
Let’s be blunt: It doesn’t matter to our hopes which corrupt clique of criminals and oppressors runs Congress. It does not matter if this imperial state is “divided” or not. Divided or undivided, they will not solve our problems — if the “we” here is the people of the world.
This country has always had a 20% that is rabid racists and dizzy wackjobs. Millions of us know them, and hate them, and will one day settle accounts. But do you seriously think we will spend our political lives so scared that we back this empire’s liberal technocrats?
We have no dog in that fight. None. Let them squabble and tear at each other’s flesh. Let the mutual exposure fill the airwaves — let this system’s hypnotic daily buzz get disrupted.
Those who mobilize people to enter the inner warfare of these imperialists often argue for slavishness, cowardice and the pettiest self-interest. They invent this or that narrow momentary advantage will (supposedly) emerge by backing the Democratic candidates.
Screw the world, but hope that this President might prop up your teachers union. Forget those who have been rounded up, but pray that a still-Democratic Senate may give immigrants amnesty. Forget any future radical rupture, but put your sights on keeping Teaparty wackjobs out of the apparatus of oppressors.
Should we hate Rand Paul and Christine O’Donnell more than Andrew Cuomo and Robert Gates?
Really?
Haggard, Lame and Flailing
Warning: don’t go there
What can be more threadbare or shameless than this cynical fear-talk?
Do we really need to document the contrast to the raving hype of these same people only two years ago? Do they think we have forgotten?
Those who promoted Obama as change now ask us to embrace the impossibility of real change. They expect us to eat shit.
People Experience, As Traffickers Panic
There were countless ordinary people who deeply believed Obama would bring change — that it would mean that the Black and immigrant would from now on be seen differently, as equal human beings. Their hopes were sincere, and perhaps understandable. They are now learning (as people often learn) from real life.
But there are others who now tell us , over and over, “We knew he was an imperialist. We had no illusions. If you feel betrayed, that’s your disillusionment. We wanted you to rally behind a lesser evil oppressor, and we want you to do it again. And again.”
Forever.
They wave images of those belligerent and racist Tea partiers at us. Thinking it will makes us tremble. Hoping that millions will cower in the shadow of the same government that unleashes ICE pigs in a hundred factories.
No.
The answer to the Tea Party and this empire’s bloodsoaked Liberals is an unapologetic, creative unveiling of modern socialist visions. It is struggle against whoever tramples us. It is to hope for a shattering of the Democratic stranglehold, in the course of the rude destruction of empire and ecocide.
Humanity need something new — something utterly different. And if we, the radical ones, don’t fight for it, if we don’t make visible, it will never happen.
If we, the radical ones, answer calls from the Democrats, we would make ourselves part of the problem. And we should not be part of that problem.
We must embody a radical negation and help gather the core for a radical solution. We must be conscious.
