For Xmas: A Trojan Horse named Joe
These days, about the best thing I can say for current US President Joe Biden is that he's not former US President Donald Trump.
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Many minority voters share this opinion. Things have sure changed since those first, heady days after the election, when many of us jumped for joy that the horrors of Trumpism were finally over.Sure enough, Uncle Joe went and took the pandemic in hand and also sent many of us free money, to boot. And the economy began to improve. Well, awright! Maybe, we prayed sotto voce, just maybe he was a
progressive after all. And if he wasn't, certainly Bernie and Betsy and AOC and the Squad and the rest of the congressional lefties would keep him in line, right? Wrong. (In fact, it's looking more and more like the other way around.)
As the months went by, and we witnessed
example after example of inertia,cowardice, ineptitude and just plain bullshit from Democrats, the apalling truth began to emerge: we had just elected a conservative, corporate Democrat who briefly masqueraded as a progressive to get into office. At first, real progressives kept quiet, wanting to be good sports, trying to hold up a unified front--hoping we were imagining things. But now we know better and we're starting to speak up. In hindsight, what
did we expect? For 36 years, the dude was a senator from DELAWARE,thank you, where 66% of Fortune 500 corporations headquarter. So who do you think helped Go Fund Him for 36 years? Who do you think he's been playing golf with? Certainly not us, the loyal minorities who gave him his electoral victory, only to be cast aside like used toilet paper once he'd won. Kamala Harris was the bone he threw us. Our black brothers and sisters then predictably got all giddy over "their" first African American Vice President, without detecting the sheer cynicism
of this particular move. First of all, If Kamala Harris is black,then so am I (see images above). Second, Kamala Harris is NOT a progressive, like most blacks, but a "centrist" (read "conservative") Blue Dog type. Third, Biden has largely sidelined Harris, trying to minimize her effectiveness and visibility as a member of his administration. He treats her like competition, not an ally. Furthermore,
Biden is practicing a subtle racism right under everyone's nose.
He is on a secret mission to bring back the days when you could call yourself a liberal and keep non-whites out of the Country Club. He covets Trump voters and is trying to win them over,while ignoring the minority progressives
who brought him to the dance. He just tricked liberals into voting for a physical infrastructure bill that
benefits mostly conservatives by promising to also push through a "social justice" bill
--and then shelving it. He has extended Trump immigration policies and is silently allowing the rapid privatization of Medicare by insurance companies.
He's not opposing the current drive to annihilate abortion and voting rights because he wrongly views these as causes affecting minorities only. But I've got a question: will white women sit still and shut up after the Supremes officially trash Roe v. Wade? I hope not. In fact, let's hope the Karens raise hell, it might snap white liberals out of their present deadly complacency.
As we say in Spanish, eso sería de alquilar balcones. It'd be worth reserving a balcony to watch THAT show, which might catch
a lot of people by surprise. Joe included. Here's someone who won't use his huge executive clout against obstructionist parliamentarians and renegade party members. Lyndon Johnson would've had them for lunch (and tell me, how hard can it be to invade their respective states and howl them out of office? Or to quietly dig up background dirt on them and discreetly force them to back down?). But Biden won't try to neutralize them because they present a handy excuse. He can hide behind them to further his own corporate agenda. He can blame them for his own inaction. And then he can turn around and accuse us progressives of being the REAL obstructionists and ruining things for everyone else.That means,ruining things for
him and his coterie of genteel white pseudoliberals,for all the politicians and pundits who are begging the rest of us to keep quiet so they can go make peace with rabid right wingers over our long -suffering heads. I've got a news flash for the sellouts: ex Trumpers ain't going to like you because they can actually
see the new face of your party. It's Black and Brown. So wrap your minds around THAT. And do it while you still have slim majorities in all branches of government but the judicial. And, finally, O Dear
Progressive Members of the House and Senate,please stop being so damned polite in advocating for the common good. Starting right now. Because if nothing else works, then we, your constituents, might just start thinking
about--as the old song goes--
"takin' it to the streets". Felices Pascuas, y'all.
PS: Take some time to go to YouTube and listen to "Takin' it to the Streets", by the Doobie Brothers. It sounds as though it was written for the present day.
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