Americas Two Right-Wing Parties Keep Accusing Each Other Of Being Far-Left by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-07-01 at 23:33:19 )

Americas Two Right-Wing Parties Keep Accusing Each Other Of Being Far-Left by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

The Biden campaign has a new Spanish-language ad out claiming that President Donald Trump is cut from the same cloth as leftist leaders Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolas Maduro. This is not the first time the Joe Biden campaign has done this, with the same comparison made to Spanish-speaking voters in Florida ads last month.

The hashtag #ComradeTrump is trending on Twitter as of this writing because a well-funded Super PAC run by never-Trump Republicans put out an appallingly stupid viral video featuring footage of Trump splashed with red hammer-and-sickle symbols interspersed with images of Soviet leaders while an English-captioned narrator gushes about Mother Russias support for "Comrade Trump" in Russian. As of this writing the video has over two million views on Twitter alone.

This tactic of negatively associating Donald Trump with communism and socialism, combined with the consistent pattern of attacking the president for being insufficiently warlike, would only work if it was directed at the members of a reactionary, jingoistic right-wing political ideology. And it does work, because that is exactly the ideology of the Democratic Party.

American soldiers lives are in danger and Donald Trump has done nothing to stop it.

Add "America First" to the laundry list of scams Donald Trump has sold in his life. It is clearly Donald Trump first, Russia second, and America last.-The Lincoln Project July 1, 2020

Donald Trump, meanwhile, appears to have positioned his entire 2020 campaign around portraying his right-wing opponent as far left, spending the last month tweeting absurd statements like:

"Not only will Sleepy Joe Biden DEFUND THE POLICE, but he will DEFUND OUR MILITARY! He has no choice, the Dems are controlled by the Radical Left."

"Sleepy Joe Biden will be (already is) pulled all the way Left."

"Sleepy Joe Biden refuses to leave his basement "sanctuary" and tell his Radical Left BOSSES that they are heading in the wrong direction."

You have also got cartoonist-MAGA thought leader Scott Adams promoting the increasingly common belief there is going to be some kind of American Great Purge of Republicans by the radical left Democratic Party, claiming that "If Biden is elected, there is a good chance you will be dead within the year. Republicans will be hunted."

Yes Republicans, your very mainstream status quo ideology which challenges power in no meaningful way whatsoever is going to literally get you all murdered.

Not only will Sleepy Joe Biden DEFUND THE POLICE, but he will DEFUND OUR MILITARY! He has no choice, the Dems are controlled by the Radical Left.-Donald J. Trump June 7, 2020

So one of the innumerable insane developments of 2020 is that both of the United States of Americas mainstream political parties are using different strategies to attack one another as being far-left extremists, which is absolutely bizarre since by global standards they are both very much right-wing parties.

Neither party even has any interest in the basic social safety nets that are the norm in other developed nations, let alone wealth redistribution to end economic inequality, and are both as far as you can possibly get from having actual leftist goals like ending capitalism and worker ownership of the means of production.

Whenever I say this I always get Republican victims of the incredible shrinking Overton window sputtering in confusion and outrage because they believe people like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are far far far far far left communists.

This is of course a total propaganda construct.

Both parties work to advance the interests of oligarchs, war profiteers and imperialist government agencies in more or less exactly the same way; all they did was shift the spectrum of acceptable debate to issues which powerful capitalists do not care about like gay marriage and unisex public toilets.

So now mainstream "conservatives" think leftism means having pink hair and mainstream "liberals" think Donalsd Trump supporters are useful idiots of the Kremlin, but in terms of actually challenging actual power there is not a bees dick of difference between them.

In a new ad Joe Biden mixes footage of Black Lives Matter rallies, the COVID-19 outbreak, & scary images of Donald Trump together to declare "Fidel, Chavez, Maduro, & Trump" are cut from the same cloth

Why then has Donald Trump intensified attacks on Cuba & Venezuela during his presidency?-Anya Parampil July 1, 2020

This dynamic of attacking one another from the right and accusing the other party of being far left of course continues to move the United States political spectrum further and further right while killing the possibility of any leftward movement, and that is of course by design.

Noam Chomsky once said that "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum," and you really could not ask for a clearer illustration of this than the United States of American political uniparty.

People are encouraged by establishment narrative managers to squabble about inconsequential nonsense on the periphery with fever pitch intensity, and to never even think about addressing dynamics which would actually inconvenience the powerful like ending militarism, government opacity, or plutocracy.

The Democratic and Republican parties can not even rightly be called different ideologies; sure they behave a bit differently in the same way a boxer uses his left jab and right cross in different ways, but just like a boxers fists they are both used to advance the exact same agenda. In the case of the boxer it is knocking his opponent senseless, and in the case of the uniparty it is advancing the interests of oligarchy and imperialism.

That old saying that both parties are just two wings on the same bird is true, but it is a weird mutant bird with two right wings.

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