SIC SEMPER DEMOCRATIBUS

End the Democratic Party, before they end all possibility of radical change

I don’t know that I can prove it, but if you asked me to identify the number one hurdle to radical or progressive change in America right now, I’d say it’s the Democratic Party.

I haven’t changed my mind about the Pachyderms: I still can’t stomach the Republicans, and have never voted for one in my life. I was radicalized by punk rock and Reagan. However, the GOP does not represent a threat to left-wing change that is anywhere near as pernicious and ruthless as Democrats and their institutions of both political capital and hegemonic cultural control.

Of course, there is absolutely NO future in electoral politics. If the 20th century taught us anything, it’s that the anarchists were right about concentrated networks of centralized power tending toward tyranny, no matter what species of political economy they espouse. This same message, essentially, was delivered by Plato 2,500 years ago, by Montesquieu in the 18th century, by Hannah Arendt after WWII, and most recently in a 2023 academic journal study in Societies by Golob, Gorišek, & Makarovič, which reveals the following:

The presence of both [authoritarianism and populism] corresponds to the lack of one’s possession of economic, social, and cultural capitals and the related political habitus. Those who lack these forms of capital are more prone to support strong authoritarian leaders and are also more likely to endorse conspiracy theories. We can relate this to the problems of exclusion and deprivation related to the lack of political habitus required for effective agency in the political field.

Translation: The lack of social, economic, and cultural capital that they describe, endemic in this country, has sledgehammered our democracy into rubble. It means that we do not have a livable minimum wage or healthcare because we do not possess the kind of uncorrupted cultural institutions or political organizations — formal or otherwise — to help us educate, organize, successfully resist, or demand change. In the United States, an individual who wants to get educated and engaged without becoming a completely indoctrinated tool is shit out of luck. Unions, universities, public schools, churches, the media, doctors, professors, clergy (and their professional organizations), NGOs, and even many non-profits: They are hollow and bankrupt, each and every one, and they exist for no other reason than to perpetuate this violent and bloody system of domestic wealth extraction and neverending imperial war.

Almost all of them are run by acolytes of the Democratic Party.

Decades of scholarly studies show us that when this happens, people are as happy as dumb little clams and willing to give up their democratic and hard-won civil rights. All it takes is some authoritarian party or demagogue to come along and promise them a glorious future, free of worry, with plenty of streaming choices and great sugar substitutes and cargo pants at Target for only $19.99. That’s all it takes for people to ignore a genocide.

I think the fine print reads:

”Just don’t grumble about ethnic cleansing or workers’ rights, or else we’ll flood the media with propaganda, call you an anti-semite, and start a race war — right before we take all of the wealth we’ve stolen and abandon this continent the way we threw Cambodia to the dogs… Maybe on the way out, we’ll fill up all the elevator shafts with concrete like the Portuguese did when they left Africa.”

How did I come to this conclusion?

I promise to lay it all out, especially the part about forever demolishing the Dems.

Exhibit number one will be introduced as a query: How the hell does this happen if the DNC’s stable masters do not possess near cult-like levels of control over the ponies that drag their carts through the muck? This is a true story, my lovely weekend encounter with rabid, frothing-at-the-mouth Blue Dogs:

I’d be interested in alternative interpretations, but how does a person go to an anti-Trump rally and protest for civil rights, and then find the time to go and yell at someone for protesting Genocide? What breeds this type of schizoid behavior? How does this happen if it’s not a result of indoctrination, ignorance, and narrative control? How is it any less deranged than the behavior of MAGA kooks? How is anything less monumentally boneheaded than believing in Russiagate?

Well, it isn’t, is it? It’s the same goddamned thing.

They do their job well. Have you ever noticed how, if you make even the most tepid political remark at work, you’re immediately consumed with fear and feel your heart start to race? They shove you into meeting rooms for team-building exercises, almost daring you to endure epic levels of boredom and absurdity, insults to your dignity and intelligence — they even take the fun out of the absurd.

Universities are among the worst offenders: gulags that spit out vocational savants with business degrees who know nothing about the world they’re entering, but possess the skills to make massive fortunes, immediately endowing them with legitimate political swank. We ensure that our graduates are in no position to so much as imagine a counter-narrative. These are Francis Fukuyama’s wunderkind, and they have screwed us all. And let’s not forget that Mr. “End of History” recently decided it wasn’t really over, made evident when he endorsed a “socialist” candidate, Bernie Sanders, for president. Talk about queering your own hustle…

My worst experience this past year, on a personal and private level, involved a political discussion with a friend of three decades. We never had a cross word with one another. He’s a PhD at a major university, and we’d worked together on writing and translating projects. But during our exchange, he absolutely refused to listen to or respond to any criticism of the Biden administration. He didn’t know anything about political history, so he didn’t believe anything I was sending him, and still, he had no defense for his stance. He accused me of the most insane things anyone has ever accused me of: I was a secret Trump supporter, I didn’t want women or transgender people on the Supreme Court (I have no idea where that hallucination came from). His wife told me there were no Nazis in Ukraine, right before she told me she didn’t know who Victoria Nuland was. The most insipid and shameful reproach from these enlightened liberal stalwarts: I was “mansplaining.”

A brilliant person, and I don’t mean to mock him. It was a devastating personal loss, and I still do not completely understand what’s happening with him.

Or with those people at the park.

Or how about cable TV? Try to watch a few minutes of this without vomiting. Anderson Cooper is telling Cornel West that a couple of thousand fatalities in a Ukrainian village was infinitely worse than an illegal war for money and oil in Iraq: a war based on a lie that killed upwards of a million people when you count civilians.

The scariest part about all of this is that I listen to my friends tell me how nightmarish their lives are, how they can’t find work, how the grind is killing them, how the workplace has become a hellscape, and how we’re taxed more than the rich. So I’ll point out what I pointed out just now, here, with you.

The response:

‘Fuck it, that’s the way the world is.”

No argument.

If that’s where they’re ready to leave things — and I mean this — I don’t sit in judgement. I can’t speak with unimpeachable authority about anything, and maybe you’re right: maybe it’s no use. I personally don’t make winning and losing a calculation in my political decision-making process, but if you need to believe you can win, I can understand not wanting to fight, even if I think you’re wrong to feel that way about it.

But I know that when I see someone who’s defeated, frightened, and in despair — the kind they’re afraid to confront — it’s not healthy. It’s not good to look at a situation this dour and not, at some level, be concerned or want to do something. Even if just for a moment, before you take another bong rip, and I don’t begrudge anyone for needing a bong rip. Not in these horrific times, especially.

Who did the Dems run for president? I know it’s hard, but think about it:

THE GAZAN GENOCIDE, THE ILLEGAL PROXY WAR THAT ANNIHILATED AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF UKRAINIAN MEN, STRIKE-BREAKING, SUBORNING PERJURY TO COVER FOR HIS KUSHNERESQUE GRAFT-RIDDEN, FELONIOUS SON, LYING US INTO IRAQ, THE OMNIBUS CRIME BILL, YEARS OF DOCUMENTED PLAGIARISM, LYING ABOUT BEHEADED BABIES, CUTTING 30 MILLION PEOPLE FROM FOOD ASSISTANCE, AND ALREADY ESTABLISHING HIMSELF AS A WAR CRIMINAL AS EARLY AS 1982, WHEN HE TOLD BEGIN TO GO WHOLE HOG AND KILL AS MANY WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS HE NEEDED TO DURING THE MASSACRES IN SHATILA AND SABRA (WHICH ALSO PROVED UNEQUIVOCALLY THAT BIDEN COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS GENOCIDE WITH A PHONE CALL).

The Democrats exist for one reason only: To shepherd possible future leftists into their fold and begin the indoctrination process, one so successful that at an anti-Trump rally, I was harassed by multiple Dems for wearing an anti-genocide shirt that criticized ALL the candidates.

What about the progressives in the party?

You mean the “Squad” who re-elected Pelosi, who voted to fund Israel, who voted to bust the most important national labor strike in a decade? The same Squad that endorsed not one, but two genocidal war criminals?

The purpose of the Democratic Party is this: To present a phony “liberal/left” option that hides behind vapid identity politics, while behind the curtain, it propagates more proxy war, genocide, and wealth inequality.

Who killed Force the Vote? The attempt to bring a vote on Medicare for All to the House floor?

The Squad killed it. AOC was at the helm, refusing to stand against the woman she said she went to Congress to stand against: Pelosi.

How many potential comrades do we lose every year because of this party? It is our job — the job of every anti-imperialist & anti-capitalist — to demolish them before they make radical change an impossibility in a country that’s come to resemble Brazil or the Philippines more than a Western superpower.

Electoral politics is a dead end, and we should start our resistance by finishing off the Democratic Party, a gang of Vichy-esque sociopaths, bought and sold, every last one of them.