Re: <nettime> Ocular facts

[Brian Holmes via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

I should be clear about one thing. The cowards I am referring to are not
the voters, who have almost no choice in the matter. The cowards are the
professional pols and strategists of the Democratic party, who twice pushed
aside a visionary, Bernie Sanders, in favor of a colorless administrator
who is now definitively unable to win.

I totally agree that people should vote strategically. Note that every
commentator in the New York Times, as well as the editorial board, thinks
Biden should patriotically stand down. The strategic thing for citizens to
do is to make a LOT of noise to that effect, right now, or party hacks and
the old geezer himself will deny reality and send us all to fascist hell.

On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 4:55 PM VCG via nettime-l <
nettime-l@lists.nettime.org> wrote:

> It was this stance that gave us Trump to begin with.  Those new  Supreme
> Court decisions… . Every time I look at the current Supreme Court, I think
> of all the times I tried telling fellow  progressives who weren’t going to
> vote for Clinton, “but the Supreme Court!!!”   And here we are.  Voting is
> about tactics.  Have ambitious and radical projects.   Build them, make
> them, support them.  Have the courage to turn the force of the river.  Make
> change.  And, yes, Biden is, imho, criminally wrong about many things.  As
> was Clinton.   But in the meantime don’t let Trump get a second term.
> There is so much at stake for so many people.  So many people.   If Trump
> is re-elected and enacts project 2025, and you didn’t help to keep him out
> of office, how will you live with yourselves?
>
> Signed, “a pathetic coward”
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Jun 28, 2024, at 8:16 PM, Brian Holmes via nettime-l <
> nettime-l@lists.nettime.org> wrote:
> >
> > When we turned on the TV last night, I did not expect to witness the
> > president of the United States physically losing power before my eyes.
> But
> > he did. Barring the ardently desired possibility that Biden should stand
> > down, Donald Trump's second term began last night.
> >
> > Pundits say that Biden can do the job of president - he just can't
> perform
> > it. That's right, but the failed performance arises from the specific
> > nature of the job being done. Mainstream Democrats cannot span the
> > contradiction between globalist imperialism abroad and brutal class war
> at
> > home. They have burnt the earth's climate on the altar of war. They have
> > thrown the progressives and the black, brown and red minorities to the
> > batons of the police, after lionizing them during the George Floyd
> > protests. They are unable to stake out an arena where they can express
> both
> > a vision, and the means to achieve it. Society stands at a turning point
> > and they are tongue-tied with fractional numbers.
> >
> > Sure, the Republicans have solved this contradiction through the creation
> > of pure fantasies based on outright lies. No doubt about it, and that,
> too,
> > was flagrantly visible last night. But with their fantasies and
> despicable
> > lies, the Republicans are winning and the Dems are sputtering and
> drowning
> > in plain sight of the shore.
> >
> > What we saw last night was far more than the end of the era that began in
> > the 1990s, with the Internet and Clintonian globalism. We saw the end of
> > Franklin Roosevelt's liberal compromise, which offered social democracy
> at
> > home in exchange for militarist imperialism abroad. This sense of an
> ending
> > was driven home by the two Supreme Court decisions that came down as we
> > opened the papers this morning: the abrogation of the EPA's power to
> > effectively regulate corporate activity (the repeal of the Chevron
> > decision) and the exculpation of the January 6 rioters, who can no longer
> > be called insurrectionists.
> >
> > The dam has broken. The flood is rushing down the valley. It takes
> > incredible courage to stand up and say, "I can stop it. By main force I
> can
> > turn the course of this river. I can save your world from being swept
> away
> > - by changing that world for the better, and making it unrecognizable to
> > your former selves."
> >
> > Without another fact-in-the-eyeballs - the unlikely spectacle of a new
> and
> > decisive Democratic candidacy - we have just crossed  a threshold in
> > history. Despise it as you may, a new world is being born. It's all about
> > nativism, nationalism and religion. It's driven by a raging bull. It's
> > headed hell-bent for war. And it has been enabled by the pathetic cowards
> > who made Joe Biden president, then allowed him to run again toward
> certain
> > disaster.
> >
> > A curse on their house and its rotten foundations. Their walls have no
> > windows. They can't even see what everyone else just took full in the
> face.
> > The end of the former world, with no replacement - only the return of the
> > unspeakable horrors that marred the twentieth century.
> >
> > Democrats, dump Joe Biden now. Stand up and make a stab at the future.
> You
> > have nothing to lose but your hypocritical illusions.
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