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Opposing The Gaza Genocide While Supporting Biden Is A Dishonest, Nonsensical Position
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this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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It's a flawed analogy sure, but the point still stands. It's easy for non-politicians to have moral clarity and take principled stances, but if you're in government trying to actually effect positive changes to society, it's not that simple at all.
They are not "trying to actually effect positive changes to society". That is exactly what being a liberal is all about - zero understanding of the material reality. What they are actually trying to do every day is upholding the interests of capital. And that means serving a specific economic group - the capitalists, or "the bourgeoisie". Whether by starting wars all over the globe, instigating coups, financing fascist death squads, supporting actual genocide, what have you. They don't give two shits about you, positive changes to society, anyone really but their donors and themselves.
And yet so many privileges that worker enjoy today were brought about through collective bargaining, trade unions, and pro-labor legislation (not to such a great extent in the US, but whatevs) introduced through principled politicians who weren't wholly under the boot of the ruling classes.
I know in this sub that sounds like a cop-out, but it's true. Not everyone has the stomach for yet another bloody revolution.
Workers in the west only care about westerners they want a part of the imperial loot they are complicit in colonialism
Edit: ah the fuck you got mine ladder puller attitude
Ding ding ding. You win, the whole thing undergirding this is this. They just want a bigger cut.