Let me break it down for you, make it real simple. America itself is one giant prison, and the key to the lock is that bubble of ‘civility,’ of ‘civil society’ that Biden talks about, that the oligarchs and their politician pets, from the president down to the university administrator, use to dignify what is, at its core, an extremely exploitative and violent system. That’s what holds it together for them, and what allows them to commit so many crimes for which there are no enforceable laws.
And it is the same system, here or in Gaza, using the same command and control nodes and intelligence networks and financing and propaganda. Even now, the same mechanisms of the state, corporate and federal, that were used under Trump to attempt to crush the 2020 BLM and antifascist protests are being used to analyze, categorize, and disrupt opposition to the state and what the state chooses to do with your tax money. Right now, they’re taking names, infiltrating, mapping.
So there aren’t really political or legal solutions to this problem because both parties serve the same masters, and the system itself is a victim of its design. It will always be what it is, a machine that uses violence and intimidation to turn suffering into capital, here or abroad. What is needed is not to hide in bubbles of your own, but to expand. General strikes, non-payment strikes, everyone in the streets, every day, until their bubbles collapse to the size of a green zone in every city.
You, not genocidal old rich people, say what goes. If one climbs up onto a pedestal and starts threatening you or telling you what’s what, and you don’t like it, pull that person off the pedestal, and do it to the next one, and the next, and the next, and to any underlings they would send against you. When nobody’s brave enough to climb up there, destroy the pedestal. That’s what victory looks like. That’s what freedom looks like. Only then can you even start to imagine justice.