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Didn’t we hear him say, in his farewell comments as he left the Whitehouse, “We’ll be back in some form.”? Seems I remember at the time some folks wondering what he meant. It seemed clear enough. But maybe I just imagined it.

Your piece lays out a series of historic events that are converging into a river and gaining momentum each day, driven with a force as inalterable as a law of nature. There is no commensurate counterforce at the highest levels to resist the flood of hatred and violence. Simply, because the present administration has revealed it’s made of the same stuff.

If Biden’s decisions to finance the destruction of Ukraine and the mass murders in Palestine aren’t acts of hatred and violence, what are they? It must appear to other nations that Americans have such a surplus of hatred and violence that we can feel fulfilled only by consuming as much as we can at home and exporting the rest to other nations, whether they want it or not.

In 73 years on the planet, I’ve never feared the future. Until now.

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Biden and the Dems are criminal, capitalist, imperialist and horrific. What some folks on "the left" miss when they say "the same" is the difference between backing fascism abroad (longstanding bipartisan US foreign policy/imperialism) and replacing (deeply flawed class rule) bourgeois democracy with fascism inside the homeland itself and across the commanding heights of the political superstructure in the belly of the imperial beast. Both parties have long practiced the former (the Dems more effectively than the Republicans!) but only the Republicans, now the Republifascists ,are pursuing the latter. The Dems cling to bourgeois democracy and rule of law, such as they are, at home. The new GOP is ready to cross over to homeland neofascism/Christian white nationalism...cross and flag Amerikaner rule in the USA. In the USA itself, okay?. There are real splits inside the country on this and from the top down. In the meantime surely you are witnessing the remarkable bottom up people's resistance to the US Israel Crucifixion of Gaza Protesters blocked FOUR tunnels into Manhattan today.

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Thankfully, I'm old, my kids are middle aged, no grands, 3 elderly sisters.

Not-So-Funny Joke: REPENT. THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING.

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Paul, are you going to 'vote blue no matter who' to stop the Orangeman bad? you better get some treatment for that TDS

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Jan 7·edited Jan 7Author

And so you did that stupid trumpenleftish thing I've written about and against on numerous occasions: reflexively assumed that accurately identifying Trump and Trumpism as fascist means that one is into the bourgeois electoral bullshit and the capitalist-imperialist Dems. Wrong twice.

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errr no Paul. I'm not an orange man fan but it seems your 'obsession' with him has skewed any objective view of the larger picture, and the name calling is a MSDNC/CNN thing too. We know how trump governs, like any other middle of the road feckless republican. He is still here for the same reason he was here in 2016. Maybe you should focus on who 'captured' what semblance of an opposition left wing politics in this country and why it's a neutered NGO that's more in line global capital than you would like to admit? I was a member of Socialist Alternative for about 4 years. I've seen how it works. And by the way, there is more hilarious to be tabling somewhere in LA and have that cult of revcom Bob Avakian robots show up and bum everyone out. I've read your writings and seen your interviews with Hedges (and that counter punch whack long beach blog). This angle always seems headed to pushing people into holding your nose and 'voting blue no matter who'. Get off your academic high throne that no one respects and form a dialog that folks across a spectrum can get ahold of. You constantly pine for subscribers on this platform that was started by the 'bourgeois' libertarian tech bros. Put it to good use by speaking to working class ordinary people blue and white collar of all types and genders in language they can understand and get behind.

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So I've shredded this whole mindset apart piece by piece on this site and in my latest book. "Academic high throne" is truly hilarious. You are in deep denial and covering that with the standard insults....though I'm surprised how long it took you to invoke the "working class." The four years in SA took its toll! I know some of those LA people you call cultified "robots;" that's just sheer slander and borderline COINTELPRO shit. You are being classically Trumpenleft: (a) by denying the extent of the actual serious AF fascism of the righmost capitalist-imperialist party and (b) by equating the acknowledldgement of the fascism of the Republi-fascists with being into Dem electoralism/"vote blue no matter who" (LOL...right, that's me, you betchya) . Those are two of the classic signs. I invented the term trumpenleft first as a joke...then droves of guys just like you showed me it was no joke. It was and even now is a real thing and you are exhibitng some of its key characteristics. On Avakian, I'd be amazed if you've ever read a single book by the guy. In my experience most of you that hurl the cult and robot charges have never dug into a single actual substantive piece from the the RCP. You just go low, snarkily charge "cult" and feel proud of your selves. That's parthetic.. Some of the smartest critical thinkers and most deeply knowledgeable people I've ever met are in the RCP. They'd run rings round you in a serious debate of the leading issues of our time, trust me.

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So you know nothing about my history and work. Okay.

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You can have a better discussion with a shoelace than with a Trumpenleftarian. 😂

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Jan 6·edited Jan 7

Fascism is just a ten dollar word to Trump and his lunch-pail, six-pack followers. They are ahistorical. Well educated supporters of Trump, the lawyers and consultants and PR people who work for and support him, certain members of the GOP ruling elite, etc., they mostly know what facsism is and are OK with it. To the wealthy all that matters is reproducing and improving upon the conditions that grant their wealth. Biden would be a safer bet for them, but they don't all think well in the medium or long term, and in Trump they see things like bigger and better legal tax avoidance and other short term perks that must be quite appealing. Either way, Biden or Trump, the ruling classes benefit short term. Without the approval of the rich, neither of the two main candidates can run in our system. However, Trump can inadvertently upset the wealth producing status quo by inciting heightened internal unrest in the society, unleashing the violence and hatred of the truly dumb, causing what one can only imagine would be market destabilizations and chaotic returns on investments. What is a millionaire or billionaire with vested interests, who has to decide how to run the show, to do? So many decisions! The only thing for certain is that we will all live with the results of how they choose to exercise their power, and who or what they choose to support, because in the current form of American capitalism, money has the loudest voice in deciding what justice looks like and how an election will go. What we need to worry about, as bowed or unbowed members of the great 300 something hundred million plus unmoneyed United States citizenry, is how can we make our voices louder? Trump supporters mistakenly turn to Trump. Surely the rest of us cannot turn to Joe Biden?

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Jan 7·edited Jan 7Author

1. There are parts of the ruling class that the dig the racism/sexism/fascism in and of themselves and beyond pecuniary interest.

2. "The only thing for certain is that we will all live with the results of how they choose to exercise their power, and who or what they choose to support, because in the current form of American capitalism, money has the loudest voice in deciding what justice looks like and how an election will go" is way too fatalistic for me. Why give up in advance on revolution, the only solution?

3. "What we need to worry about, as bowed or unbowed members of the great 300 something hundred million plus unmoneyed United States citizenry, is how can we make our voices louder?" Well, okay but not all of the 300 plus beneath the one percent is "unmoneyed." We have a very affluent ten percent and a comfortable twenty percent and live in a parastic imperial nation that exploits the rest of the world quite savagely.

4. No support for Biden here and no support here really for US electoral politics at all.

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Better than many of your polemics, but it falls a bit short at the end. 'Build a movement' has more uses than aspirin. Yes, but build mass base organizations within movements, organizations capable of connecting horizontally and vertically.

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America is a racist country. Is there a turning back away from the fascism of Donald Trump? Expect internal revolts that will end our attempt at democracy for our white population and second class citizenship for the rest.

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It is my opinion that the Trump phenomenon is the best thing that has happened to zionist run US. If they fail to control (or assassinate) Donald soon come post the next election Trump will destroy the war machine or the system will destroy Trump and Trump followers will revolt. The more instability in this giant zionist war machine the better.

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