Thread by @caitoz

Don't Fool Yourself: Your Biden Vote Was Not A "Vote Against Fascism"

The election is over. The lies that people on the true political left have been telling themselves in order to psych themselves out for a painful Biden vote must now be dispensed with.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/dont-fool-yo…

Well the battle rages on, with Dems afraid Trump will remain in office by force (spoiler: he won't, he'll exit peacefully) and Republicans afraid Biden will enslave them to communism (spoiler: he won't, he'll enslave you to end-stage imperialist neoliberalism like everyone else).

Anxiety remains high, with mass media going out of its way to play up civil unrest fears as protests and counter-protests erupt across the country.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1324453700513968130?s=20

I'll just reiterate what I said before the election:

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1323054445140213760

All that said, the election itself is now over. Which means the lies people on the true political left have been telling themselves in order to psych themselves out for a painful Biden vote must now be dispensed with. "I voted against fascism" is a common example of such a lie.

I get that American lefties have had to come up with all kinds of arguments for their decision to help elect a right-wing authoritarian warmonger with whom they have nothing ideologically in common, and to be clear I am not interested in telling them they are wrong for doing so.

But let's be clear: it's illegitimate to call your vote for Biden a "vote against fascism". You can claim it was a vote for a more dangerous form of fascism, but you can't claim with any validity that your vote for a lifelong murderous authoritarian was a vote against fascism.

By telling yourself you voted out fascism, you are lying yourself into a state of future complacency.

All of the ugly things which have been happening during the Trump administration will continue to happen during the Biden administration.