Trump is a totally average US president. Everything that is happening now would have happened under Kamala. We will eventually have to deal with anyone like Jamie up there incapable of doing enough material analysis to realize this fact.
I don’t think Trump is your average president. He does more or less the same stuff as others, but brazenly and openly, which further encourages other bigots to do awful bigoted shit. He also does some straight up insane shit like the tariffs thing (remember that?) and is the first president in a while to be openly anti-science. That stuff will fuck up the US empire real bad in the next couple of decades.
The trouble is that, while yes domestic policy obviously matters as far as our day to day lives are concerned, in analytical terms it’s kind of irrelevant. Foreign policy is all that actually matters. We are many steps removed from making any real improivements with domestic policy because the apparatus of super state power, which projects dominance and control over other countries, is the real source of the power of the ruling class here at home. Domestic power in the imperialist state is based in the enslavement of other countries for the domestic’s benefit. You can be the most far left politician in every other concievable way, and advocate for free healthcare and worker co ops and hunting down everyone with more than three reál in their pocket in the streets or whatever, but you’re not an enemy of the hegemony if you’re falling in line when it comes to foreign policy. Now once that real source of the ruling class’s power in the form of foreign imperialism is dried up, you can then be free to do whatever you want when it comes to domestic policy and make meaningful change. But you don’t have that liberty as long as the imperialist state machine continues to exist.
Obviously not claiming that Kamala would have been any of those things. Just in these terms it doesn’t do much good to think of how she would have been less evil domestically if the foreign policy would have been just as wicked.
Trump is a totally average US president. Everything that is happening now would have happened under Kamala. We will eventually have to deal with anyone like Jamie up there incapable of doing enough material analysis to realize this fact.
I don’t think Trump is your average president. He does more or less the same stuff as others, but brazenly and openly, which further encourages other bigots to do awful bigoted shit. He also does some straight up insane shit like the tariffs thing (remember that?) and is the first president in a while to be openly anti-science. That stuff will fuck up the US empire real bad in the next couple of decades.
Kamala would probably be doing less evil shit domestically.
We’d probably still be bombing Iran though.
Oooooh no, she’d be peddling the anti-trans “hey lets install evil cameras everywhere” stuff.
The trouble is that, while yes domestic policy obviously matters as far as our day to day lives are concerned, in analytical terms it’s kind of irrelevant. Foreign policy is all that actually matters. We are many steps removed from making any real improivements with domestic policy because the apparatus of super state power, which projects dominance and control over other countries, is the real source of the power of the ruling class here at home. Domestic power in the imperialist state is based in the enslavement of other countries for the domestic’s benefit. You can be the most far left politician in every other concievable way, and advocate for free healthcare and worker co ops and hunting down everyone with more than three reál in their pocket in the streets or whatever, but you’re not an enemy of the hegemony if you’re falling in line when it comes to foreign policy. Now once that real source of the ruling class’s power in the form of foreign imperialism is dried up, you can then be free to do whatever you want when it comes to domestic policy and make meaningful change. But you don’t have that liberty as long as the imperialist state machine continues to exist.
Obviously not claiming that Kamala would have been any of those things. Just in these terms it doesn’t do much good to think of how she would have been less evil domestically if the foreign policy would have been just as wicked.