this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
33 points (81.1% liked)
Ask Lemmygrad
670 readers
31 users here now
A place to ask questions of Lemmygrad's best and brightest
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
What do you see as being fundamentally different between the Biden and Trump regimes?
Biden is driven to maintain the status quo and current profit system.
Trump is also committed to this but he is much more egotistical, mentally ill, deranged, and nationalistic.
I think you might be overestimating how much power the Amerikan president has; at the end of the day, the state is controlled by the big bourgeoisie (including the MIC, etc.)
I didn’t say that he would become Hitler, but he would accelerate the fall into fascism to light speed.
They do have more power than any president has ever actually exercised, especially if the bourgeoisie are behind it
I'm sure they could get away with some things before the bourgeoisie has time to react, but the people who have any chance of being elected are already bourgeois themselves and/or firmly under bourgeois control (if a president acts against bourgeois interests regardless of this, they have many ways to de-fang or neutralize that person)
Yes, I meant more so if a fascist took power and the bourgeoisie were supporting that
sure, a charismatic openly fascist president would be worse than the current setup, at least domestically