I told myself: Cornell West is right. I have to vote for Joe because I am, for once, in a swing state.
That was true, and I did what I had to do. Still and always, I will regret the necessity, and all future necessities that might involve voting for any Dempublican whatsoever.
A long month into office, Biden is now officially a war criminal just like Daddy Barack.
For that reason and many others, Liberalism is dead to me. But of course it’s not really liberalism, or even neo-liberalism exactly, that is the real problem.
It’s oligarchy. It’s the influence of corporate money from Raytheon and Pfizer and Google flowing through and suffusing political power and policy. It’s the military-industrial-pharmaceutical-technocratic complex.
It’s capitalism.
The Communist tells us it’s the same in Canada. Yes, there’s a bit of an ironical feel to the complaints of someone living in a better country, with universal health care and a temporary UBI in place during the pandemic, lodging the same complaints. But with the necessary change in perspective, he’s right anyway,
Wrap it all up this way in less time than it takes to listen to a pop song. Richard Medhurst is a Syrian living in the UK. Hear him. Hear him.