So here we are, after a year of extraordinary social crisis in the US and a presidential campaign co

So here we are, after a year of extraordinary social crisis in the US and a presidential campaign costing billions of dollars: despite all that powerful emotion, it doesn’t really matter.No, it doesn’t matter that Joe Biden is president instead of Trump. Yes, people argued that, despite Biden’s flaws, the oppressed needed a Democrat in power to carry out progressive legislation. And we’ve heard that argument before. During the 2008 primaries, Hillary Clinton argued that the earlier victories of the civil rights movement had depended on having a Democratic president—Lyndon Johnson. “That dream became a reality, the power of that dream became real in people’s lives because we had a president who said we are going to do it and actually got it accomplished”, Clinton claimed.That position—that we needed Biden in the White House to carry out our program, while Trump might make a “serious authoritarian turn” unless the left spent their time “phonebanking, textbanking, doorknocking” for a Biden victory—was taken up around the US liberal left, who dangled the prospects of a Bernie Sanders cabinet appointment or “the most progressive agenda in our nation’s history” before the eyes of any leftist sceptics.It’s a lie. America’s leading capitalists, and the strategists of US imperialism, didn’t unite behind Biden because they think he’s likely to come under pressure to implement a sweeping, transformative vision of equality. They backed him because they rightly think he’s more likely to make the US political system look a little more legitimate, and defend the interests of the ruling class more effectively.READ MORE: Why it really doesn’t matter that Biden won -- source link

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