by AD Nacholo
As the electoral farce reaches new stages of ridiculousness following the “attempted assassination” of Donald Trump, the monopoly media and the imperialist politicians alike are attempting a great coming together. NBC has tried to christen the day after the attack as “Somber Sunday.” All major imperialist politicians as well as the monopoly media have been pushing for an end to “divisive rhetoric” and calling for national unity in the condemnation of political violence.
Joe Biden’s campaign has for the moment pulled all of its ads and material, feebly using the attack as an excuse to sideline the question in his party of if he is qualified to run or not. The aggressive posturing against Trump and his hard man facade he has been adopting to conceal his stammering is rendered, at least temporarily, noneffective.
On one hand, the calls for ending divisive rhetoric and for national unity are a transparent attempt to prepare for Trump’s predictable verbal tirade as part of the general established pattern of the electoral farce. On the other, Trump is plainly displayed by the politicians and media as capable of being a supportable and unifying personality that all can get behind. Either way, Trump’s campaign can make bread from the ingredients they have been handed.
The contradictions among the ruling class even in the context of a deepening political crisis are not so pronounced that there is real political distinctions between the two parties, in fact the electoral farce so far has been only an attempt to conceal their deep similarities, which have been further highlighted by recent events. The electoral farce is both the product of the political crisis as well as a response to it—a desperate attempt to legitimize options among imperialist oppressors. The true nature of the crisis is that none of the imperialist options are good ones, and people know it. Trump for his part is the forerunner in the election and will now be able to advance and consolidate his campaign to become once again the head chief of US imperialism.
The fact remains that the scandal mongering, the established hyper-partisan framing of ruling class politics, combined with the new effort to come together can still blow up in the face of the ruling class. Whether it is the feeble Democrats, decomposing and ultra-reactionary, or the ultra-reactionary Republicans who come out on top, the political crisis rising from the economic crisis of imperialism will only rot further from the inside.
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