President Joe Biden: Uninspired Figurehead of the Capitalist Dictatorship
When Joe Biden was finally declared the winner of the Presidential election in 2020, after a fraught, suspenseful period of public contention, American liberals were overcome with childlike joy. In their self-serving view, Joe Biden was the man who would "restore democracy to America," banishing the stench of Donald Trump, the hateful, pompous President who had delighted in annoying them during the preceding four years. The liberals were wrong, of course, but then, experience has shown that liberals are generally wrong about everything.
American liberals despised Donald Trump because he was too American, too much an ugly expression of what America actually is and always has been. When they looked at Donald Trump, they saw the truth of America, and it was not pleasing to them. They preferred to have a President who would tell them only what they wanted to hear, a President who would offer solace in the form of comforting fairy tales about American goodness, a President who would uphold the false America that allows them, in defiance of reason, to think well of themselves.
Joe Biden has a long history of deception and duplicity, which is why he succeeded in becoming President. He is, all in all, no better (or worse) than others of his kind, but the millions who voted for him in 2020 chose to overlook his clear defects. In 2002, for example, as a member of the United States Senate, Joe Biden supported America's hideous war against Iraq, a war that resulted in tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians being killed by American forces. That alone permanently impugned his integrity, and made him morally unfit for leadership.
As the incoming President of a nation that, since March, 2020, has suffered greatly from the spread of Covid-19, Joe Biden promised to handle the pandemic with all the due seriousness that Donald Trump had failed to display (not much of a challenge in itself), but so far, two months into his Presidency, he has provided little more than tiresome rhetoric and ineffective gestures. (Which, in essence, if not appearance, is the same approach as Trump's.) Meanwhile, although the virus has yet to be vanquished, Biden's liberal followers are singing his praises.
Four years from now, when Joe Biden is finishing his first term as President, an honest observer will see that America is still America, in all the ways that matter. The rich will have grown richer, and the poor will have grown poorer. Violence and delusion will still define America's character. American wars will still be waged against civilians, in the Middle East and elsewhere. Corporate control of all human activities will be more extensive than ever. In short, Biden's America will have proven to be merely a continuation of Trump's America.
It is quite easy to see that Joe Biden is no more trustworthy than Donald Trump. His style is different from Trump's, less vulgar and less provocative, but beneath his dimwitted affability, he represents the same things as Trump: greed, deceit, and tyranny. Joe Biden will not restore democracy to America, mainly because there was never any democracy in America to be restored. He is the latest standard-bearer for wealthy, coldblooded oppression, an uninspired figurehead of the capitalist dictatorship that rules America for its own purposes.