Thread by @caitoz

The Next Two Years Will Be The Democratic Party At Its Most Transparent

This period will provide ample opportunities to highlight the fact that the Democratic Party exists solely to kill all leftward movement in the most powerful government on earth.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-next-two…

Joe Biden is now the president of the United States of America. His day one executive orders should have prioritized ending the single worst crisis in the world in Yemen, a war he campaigned on ending US involvement in, but they did not.
archive.is/QvCGj

Ending US participation in the Yemen genocide could and should have begun on day one. In These Times reported the following back in November (emphasis added):

Biden did none of these things, which while unsurprising is still inexcusable. This administration consciously chose not to end US participation in that atrocity as swiftly as possible, which will remain an inexcusable decision even if the Yemen war is eventually ended later.

In the lead-up to Biden's inauguration we were treated to some Senate hearings on his cabinet picks, in which we learned that this administration will continue Trump's murderous coupmongering in Venezuela,
reuters.com/article/us-usa…

that it will maintain Trump's incendiary decision to have the US embassy in Jerusalem,
aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/20…

that reviving the Iran nuclear deal is a long ways off from happening and will first require consultation with Israel,

https://twitter.com/Antiwarcom/status/1351706451094298629

and that the Biden administration will be continuing Trump's cold war escalations against China.
news.antiwar.com/2021/01/19/bid…

In one of the more bizarre displays, Tony Blinken defended his support for the disastrous Libya intervention during his time in the Obama administration by blaming its aftermath on Gaddafi, the leader who was murdered in the streets after a US-led intervention to oust him.

By "when he was gone" Blinken means when he was dead, because the United States helped kill him after staging an intervention based on lies.

This is like an axe murderer blaming his actions on his victim’s bad housekeeping. The brazenness with which imperialist goons can shrug off all responsibility for their actions will never cease to astonish.

https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1351625722574548995?s=20

The next two years will be the Democratic Party at its most transparent. After two years they are likely to lose control of the House and/or Senate, after which time they'll be able to pawn off all imperialist bloodshed and lack of progress on an "obstructionist congress".

But until then the Democrats are going to have to own all of their reactionary depravity and mass murder on their own.

This will set a sharp contrast from the past four years, where every part of the empire's abuse was portrayed as an anomaly unique to the Trump administration.

Unable to blame their refusal to advance progressive policies and basic human decency on Trump and Vladimir Putin these next two years, they'll be forced to kill any leftward movement all on their own. Which is why we are now already seeing MSM articles with headlines like this:

And this period will provide ample opportunities to highlight the fact that that's exactly what the Democratic Party exists to do: kill all leftward movement in the most powerful government on earth.

The sooner Americans can discredit the Democratic Party as a legitimate vehicle for progressive change, the sooner they can start looking for other tools. The first step to escape is to stop pushing against the fake door falsely labeled "exit".