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From: "Richard D. Wolff" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:37:15 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: US politics truly became “the evil of two lessers.”
To: Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx>
<https://democracyatwork.nationbuilder.com/donate>
Dear Carl --
The truth is the United States lost.
What won was a constricted politics defined by the range between the
GOP and Democrats, Trump and Biden. Voters chose between two similar
fantasies differentiated by two names: a return to “greatness” vs a
return to “normal.” How ironic that Trump’s greatness and Biden’s
normal both name the recent history that drove the US to its current
scary conditions. In the ever more hyped blame game that this election
was, US politics truly became “the evil of two lessers.”
Fundamental questions actually confront the US now. Is US capitalism
in terminal decline amid China’s ascendance? How do we do better than
capitalism as our economic system given its inequalities,
instabilities, and gross failures to safeguard public health? How can
we best undo capitalism’s environmental damage? What can really
overcome the centuries of damage done to African-Americans and other
indigenous and people of color via white supremacy? On such basic
questions, this election’s major parties and candidates offered no
engagement, let alone answers.
The 2020 presidential election teaches, yet again, a basic lesson. Any
real political choice requires competition (real dialogue and debate)
among multiple parties with genuinely different positions on US
capitalism and its relation to the fundamental questions. Only then
can such questions and the parties’ alternative answers to them become
inescapable centerpieces of US politics and subject to democratic
decisions.
Neither the establishments controlling the GOP and Democrats, nor the
Trumps and Bidens among them, want real political party competition.
They seek to retain their 2-party monopoly and keep sharing power 100%
between them.
They are all integral parts of a declining system, one we must move beyond.
In solidarity,
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Richard D. Wolff
Founder, Board Member
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