the government serves corporate power, not the public good. both parties are war parties. america is the corporate war. 

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biden is implicated in every one of the social crises that millions of americans are driving ourselves into the streets during a time of pandemic to resist. joe biden’s been a cheerleader for every war over the last generation — two generations, in fact.
he’s an architect to the very same extent as nancy pelosi of the mass incarceration and paramilitary policing racket that we are resisting in the movement for black lives.
joe biden is the most quintessential creature of washington in washington. there is nobody who embodies the beltway to a greater extent than he. and so it does seem to me, fairly obviously, like ducking into a punch, especially when we think about the bigger dynamics beyond the election. we are living in an age of the center, the corporate center, delegitimizing itself. and in that wake, as people recognize that, for instance, corporate health care, as we were describing before, can’t possibly meet our needs, it is forcing populism to the front of the agenda. and the question is: what kind of populism is it? is it the right wing populism that fuels fascism that we’ve seen rise in the world in the last 100 years to incredibly destructive effect that we had to mobilize as a civilization to stop militarily, or will it be the kind of populism that puts human needs and future generations at the center of our public policy calculus? that’s what i represent.
i’d put it this way. i’m not committed to a party. i’m committed to the people. i’m running to help recover the democratic party because it’s been captured by wall street. so, yeah, i absolutely have no allegiance to democratic party actors. i mean the democratic party is as responsible for mass incarceration, wars for profit, and climate catastrophe as the republicans. i have absolutely no allegiance to people just because they call themselves democrats. i have allegiances to people who defend the rights, interests of the people; to people who are fighting to preserve an opportunity for all of our grandchildren to survive and thrive; people who are standing in the footsteps of the voices that have clamored for civil rights over our nation’s history. that’s not democratic party careerists. democratic party careerists are tools of wall street and I’ve watched them in context after context, from immigrant rights to peace and justice to climate justice to racial justice to economic justice, renter’s rights, you name it. i’ve seen nancy pelosi side with republicans on issue after issue. and, you know, i would welcome the attacks of democratic party careerists because people forget, at the end of the day, most americans are independents. they don’t belong to either of the corporate political parties. that’s who i represent.
fascism, in some respects, is defined by a fusion of state power and corporate power. and any number of corporations, including u.s. corporations — i.b.m. comes to mind — made hand over fist during the holocaust, facilitating mass human rights abuses. it’s no different today. palantir, for example, is a silicon valley tech company whose business model is inextricably intertwined with the war on immigrants and the war on privacy. mass surveillance is their business model and they basically profit from abusing the rights of u.s. citizens.

  
the nsa breaks the law every day. it doesn’t matter who you are or what you say, they monitor your phone calls and emails anyway. corrupt congress and courts paving the way. there’s a lesson you’ll learn someday: watch what you say. see they spy on your mind, record your calls for posterity, commit daily executive crimes with impunity. they’re the authorities, here to keep us safe, until the boot ends up on your face. it’s the nsa against the constitution. we the people are the ones our government is abusing. we can force any agency to make a new choice when we build a movement, each raising our voice.  (nsa vs usa)

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