By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published in God’s Spy
Murder at Rafael this weekend (sauce)
The rich do not rule in the name of anyone other than themselves.
-Sincerely
Bipartisan agreement moves America forward
In the United States, bipartisan consensus prevails on most issues. For example, Support for our war. upon April 20:
The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday approved a $95 billion bill to aid Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Both Democratic President Joe Biden and the top Senate Republican, Mitch McConnell, had urged House Speaker Mike Johnson, D-N.Y., to bring the bill to a vote.
and April 27:
The U.S. Senate has approved with overwhelming bipartisan support a $95 billion bill to provide security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region, President Joe Biden’s top foreign policy initiative.
this is, Lack of public support In both wars, and Actively oppose the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The same is true in American healthcare. Majorities have supported universal health care for years.But bipartisan consensus is against this. Biden Reject Medicare for AllRepublicans, naturally, want a Medicare plan that no one can afford. Majority Support for a Public Option flat among their support base.
Even Republicans are adamant that if Medicare for All expansion legislation passes, they would be willing to die to keep it in place. Nobody think South Park mistaken The US health care system. There just hasn’t been any active opposition to it, and the media is helping to keep it that way.
Princeton University research has begun again
There is more to the story, but what do I want to say? Princeton Study Let’s try again.”Large-scale study finds the US is an oligarchy” sang one headline, and we all know that statement isn’t wrong.
this is Left vs. RightThere are left vs right issues, but endless wars (to enrich the war purveyors) and the endless flow of wealth to the top (to enrich the true rulers and impoverish everyone else) are not among them.
about this Rich and othersTo be more specific, How do we stop the rich from dominating the rest of us? How do we break their grip on politics?
Does support for Israel divide the wealthy from everyone else?
Which brings me to Israel and my main point.
The people of Gaza are being slaughtered mercilessly. But there is an incredibly strong rebellion happening inside the country. A university full of money; those who ruled over those who ruled, e.g. Billionaire Robert Kraft All of this was driven by foreign wars, Israeli genocide, and widespread and determined support from the elites and the media.
Where will this end?
Achievement
The best outcome for Israel would be for it to stop killing. Then the deaths would stop, and the revolt against our leaders’ complicity would end. After all, the George Floyd protests left almost no trace. The torture of Gazans will continue, and the murders by police will continue, but without the mass murder that fueled it, this opposition will likely fade into the background.
But what if Israel is attempting true ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip by killing or mass expelling most of its inhabitants, or both? John Mearsheimer certainly argues that this is the case. The most likely of his four options isThe Israelis do not want a one-state solution. They do not want a two-state solution. The only options they have are to either kick all the Arabs out of Palestine, or kill the ones that are left.
So what happens if Israel doesn’t stop?
- Withholding support for Biden It would not benefit Israel in any meaningful way and any meaningful protests would cease.
- Biden maintains support And the protests accelerate, along with the unstoppable killings.
I think that’s all the options you have.
If Biden and the bipartisan gang persist in supplying weapons for the massacre of what may ultimately be as many as one million innocent people, America’s underclass – the people – will be rebelling against the upper class – their money-fed leaders – telling everyone who joins in this inescapable truth. The rich rule over us not in their own name, but in someone else’s.
Unfinished Revolution
And it would take America back to the 60s and 70s, another era of critical mass rebellion, when some themes — civil rights, women’s rights, environmental protection (known as “greening”) — were at the heart of life and death issues. A group of young people sent to their deaths.
As long as conscription remained in force, the rebellion (the “movement”) remained strong and represented a credible threat to state authority. Draft EndedThe movement began to decline. Individual “movements” remained, but lost critical mass. We live in a post-movement world. Built by Carter (the proto-neoliberal), Reagan, Clinton, Bush and all the rest..
What would end American servitude?
There are many issues threatening our lives today, as there have always been: economic and racial justice, the rape of people to acquire wealth, the tendency to kill people, etc. But none of them alone have been able to unite people in rebellion, to create a critical mass.
So, up until now, there has been the horror of Israeli genocide and the determination of our rulers to allow it to continue.
So, my conclusion is:
If Israel continues to murder Gaza’s residents and our leaders continue to pressure us into complicity, it will light a fire that will reach tipping point and continue to burn until Israel gives up, Biden gives up, or our leaders lose control of the country.
Will Israel succeed in dividing the country? After all, something American servitude must end. It will not end naturally. It may as well end at the hand of our leader’s best friend.
