Members of the Democratic Party in the United States have had spent the last four years just ripping into Republicans for voting for Trump. Trump is a racist. Trump is sexist. Trump is a warmonger. Trump is a Fascist. Trump is a rapist. And they aren’t wrong. Trump is in fact all those things and more. And, so the Democrat’s argument goes, everyone who votes for him is some combination of racist, Fascist, sexist, warmongering, or pervert, if not all those things, or at the very least are enablers of such people. Therefore they are all threats to American democracy and society as a whole.
The problem with that narrative is that if that is the case, then the Democratic Party and every Democrat in the nation, including everyone else who votes for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020 are racist, Fascist, warmongering, sexist perverts. Why? Because Biden and/or Harris are all those things and more. Voting for the Biden/Harris ticket in 2020 is exactly like voting for the Trump Pence ticket, in either 2016 or 2020. In this part of the ongoing Modern Moloch series about how the State, the government, is a dangerous cult, I will first demonstrate the utter corruption of both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, then explain why this doesn’t matter to Democrats (just as Trump’s utter corruption doesn’t matter to the Republicans), and conclude by illustrating how this isn’t a degradation of the political system but is its ultimate point. The entire function and purpose of the system is to get the masses to support and submit to extraordinarily corrupt people.
Joe Biden- A Short Primer
Joe Biden is a racist. His political career has seen him repeatedly support laws that absolutely devastated minority communities, especially the black community. When he was first elected to the Senate from Delaware, Biden was a strong opponent of busing black children into white schools in order to bring about school integration. Now, Biden likes to frame his opposition as to being against federal busing, Dartmouth historian Dr. Matthew Delmont points out that this is just the classic restatement of the racist justifications of the era for opposing integrated schools:
With busing, Northerners had found a palatable way to oppose desegregation without appealing to the explicitly racist sentiments they preferred to associate with Southerners. “I have probably talked before 500 or 600 groups over the last years about busing,” Los Angeles Assemblyman Floyd Wakefield said in 1970. “Almost every time, someone has gotten up and called me a ‘racist’ or a ‘bigot.’ But now, all of the sudden, I am no longer a ‘bigot.’ Now I am called ‘the leader of the antibusing effort.’” White parents and politicians framed their resistance to school desegregation in terms like “busing” and “neighborhood schools,” and this rhetorical shift allowed them to support white schools and neighborhoods without using explicitly racist language. Describing opposition to busing as something other than resistance to school desegregation was a move that obscured the histories of racial discrimination and legal contexts for desegregation orders.
And here we are, decades later, with Joe Biden repeating the same racist arguments to defend his own racist policies. It suggests he hasn’t changed very much. And that is really only the tip of the iceberg.
Along with the support of segregationist Strom Thurmond, Joe Biden helped to author and get passed the 1984 Comprehensive Crime Control Act. This program gave the federal government nearly limitless power to seize -that is take and keep, aka steal- the private property of citizens accused of even minor drug crimes. From the very start it began destroying the lives of primarily minority peoples, as in the example of Thomas Lopes.
Lopes was living with his parents because he was struggling with severe emotional and mental disabilities. Eventually he was caught growing a single marijuana plant in the backyard of their family home, a plant which his parents didn’t want to cut down because he threatened to commit suicide if they did so. Eventually he was caught, arrested and received a court order to see a psychologist, which actually helped him put his life together. But then the police showed up. You see, the statute of limitations for civil asset forfeiture was five years and it had only been four. So years after the event, after Thomas and his family were doing a lot better, after they had put the entire affair behind them and he had served his time, the cops appeared and announced that because they had the legal right to seize any property connected to drug crimes that they were taken the Lopes home, and there was nothing they could do about it. Today the police steal more from the public every year than thieves do. And it hurts minorities most of all. All thanks to Joe Biden.
Then there is the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that Biden wrote and pushed through Congress. As the Center for American Progress notes, “[t]he crime bill’s Federal Death Penalty Act permitted the use of the death penalty for 60 new federal offenses, including certain drug offences not related to a homicide. In the five years following the bill’s passage, 74 percent of defendants with death penalty recommendations from federal prosecutors were people of color. Notably, 44 percent were black and 21 percent were Hispanic.” The bill’s use of mandatory sentences led to a large increase in the mass incarceration of black peoples and Latinos and has led to people receiving decades long sentences, even life sentences, for as petty crimes as stealing change from a car and made it possible to try children as young as 13 as adults.
All the problems that people have been marching against since the death of George Floyd -mass incarceration, unaccountable police, mass theft, the destruction of black and Hispanic communities from the War on Drugs, the destruction of black and Hispanic families as parents have been imprisoned for minor offenses, the loss of homes and wealth as they’re taken from minority peoples by the police, and more- all exist because Joe Biden helped them come to pass. As the Leftist news source LeftVoice recently put it:
While Biden may have learned the right words to say in 2020 to avoid accusations of racism, as in his “plan for Black America,” he lacks the policies, actions, or record to back them up. Racism isn’t what you say; it’s what you do. And Biden continues to advocate for racist action worldwide, from criminal penalties for immigration to increased military spending…Biden doesn’t really stand with Black Americans.
Joe Biden is a rapist. As The Intercept explains it:
Tara Reade, was one of eight women who registered complaints of inappropriate touching in April of last year — before Biden ever jumped into the presidential race. As Biden appeared likely to be the Democratic nominee, Reade came forward in late March and told her story about her former boss. In an interview with podcast host Katie Halper, Reade said Biden penetrated her vagina with his fingers. She alleges the incident occurred in 1993, while she was an aide in his Senate office. What Reade describes is rape, according to the Department of Justice’s own definition.
At least seven women have claimed that Biden harassed them in some manner. But Tara specifically talks about how he raped her. And you know if he was brazen as to rape her in the US Capitol Building then she almost certainly isn’t the first woman he has done this to and she may not even have been the last. Regardless though, for the party who claims to support the #MeToo Movement to openly support an accused rapist and repeated physical and sexual harasser should be beyond the pale. They did everything they could to destroy Republican Brett Kavanaugh for similar accusations. Yet, here they are doing the exact opposite. The vast majority of so-called pro-women advocacy groups fell all over themselves to excuse and ignore Tara’s story about Biden raping her. The Democrats are doing what they derided the Republicans for doing in 2016- supporting a rapist who they think can win, because it means political power for them.
Then of course there are all those times that Biden has physically harassed children, teen girls, and grown women. Here is a small selection. Notice how these people react to Biden’s unwanted physical advancements and think about how you would react if some old male stranger did the same to your kids or spouse:
Joe Biden is a brutal warmonger and the Democratic warmongers love him even now. As a Senator he voted for the Iraq War and continued to support it into the Obama Administration. He supports the genocidal actions the US has taken to support the Saudi royal family as it wages a war of extermination against the Houthi people in the Yemeni Civil War, having pushed Obama to get involved even as the Saudi military was purposefully targeting and murdering children. He supported America’s involvement in the Syrian Civil War, including illegal and unauthorized military strikes that helped destroy the nation, kill hundreds of thousands, and have destroyed the homes and lives of millions of people. He openly supported sending even more troops into Afghanistan even after Obama originally campaigned to end the war there. It is worth noting that Obama failed to keep this promise. All in all, Biden has been a huge supporter for the “War on Terror” that has destroyed the lives of millions of innocent people, led to a huge spike in terrorism, and laid waste to civilizations millenniums older than the USA. You can read more about the result of the wars that Biden has supported here.
Kamala Harris- A Shorter Primer
Kamala Harris is the worst. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard nailed down why perfectly during the Democratic primaries:
Let’s make a list with links that prove Tulsi’s claims.
- Harris oversaw the imprisonment of 1,560 people for marijuana violations, somewhere around 312 a year, and then laughed about she had smoked weed herself and laughed about ever legalizing it. These laws harm minorities far more than whites.
- Harris absolutely had evidence that convicted murderer Kevin Cooper might actually be innocent of the crime and refused to do anything with it, blocking attempts to carry out new DNA testing on a bloody shirt that had been discovered and was connected to the Cooper case.
- Harris actually fought against a state order to release imprisoned non-violent offenders because it would “severely impact” the amount of cheap labor that could be used to fight fires. And she did so in absolute defiance of the Supreme Court, fighting tooth and nail against direct orders to release nonviolent offenders. This is perhaps the most obviously evil thing of all. What do you call it when men and women are kept in shackles and forced to work for violent enforcers who control everything about the workers’ lives- including when they eat, sleep, what they do, when they can leave, what they can eat, what they wear, etc.? I know what I call it -slavery. Harris was a slave trader for the State prison system and she is proud of it now.
- During her years as the top prosecutor in San Francisco Harris supported raising the cost of cash-for-bail, which she now admits hurts the poor most all. She knew it then as well, which is why she proposed it as a way to punish poor people who committed crimes in S.F. And she fought against any recompense being paid to innocent people convicted and imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit and repeatedly fought against people trying to prove their innocence from being able to do so.
- Here is an extra freebie: Harris has openly said she believes the women who have accused Biden of sexually harassing them. And now she is running as his V.P., openly supporting the man she admits to believing is a serial sexual harasser.
Democratic Fascism
With Biden you have a warmonger supported by other warmongers, who is racist, who has made substantial efforts to expand the powers of the police state, who claims to have authored the PATRIOT ACT in 1994 which gave the state the authority to spy on and track all Americans without limit or warrant, who has repeatedly allied with avowed segregationists to introduce legislation that destroys the lives and communities of black people and Hispanic and that results in the imprisonment and deaths of vast numbers of minority non-white peoples, who is accused of sexism and rape, and who fought against school integration.
With Harris you have a former prosecutor who fought to keep black men in prison despite a Supreme Court order otherwise so she could use them for slave labor, who repeatedly enforced laws she knew destroyed black communities and laughed about how committed the same crime but never did the time, who blocked evidence that would free a black man from death row, and who is now running with and promoting a man she believes to be a serial sexual harasser to be the most powerful man in the world.
What other word would you use for such corrupt, power hungry, militaristic, and bigoted people who have profited politically and economically from demonizing and destroying minority communities other than Fascist? Fascism dominates the Democratic Party right now. And millions will vote for it in the name of defeating the other Fascist, Donald Trump. Fascism to defeat Fascism only produces more Fascism.
How Did It Get This Way?
The truth of the matter is that it didn’t get this way. It has always been this way. The Cult of the State is as old as history. Anciently it proclaimed its kings and queens gods and goddesses who could control nature and ensure prosperity. Though the masses today pretend to be enlightened and civilized, having done away with the formal religious titles for their rulers and the superstitions of the past, their expectations are still the same. They expect their leaders to do miracles and work wonders with the power of the State to control nature and ensure prosperity.
As I wrote recently, it is a religious mania (look under the “Worship” section) that infuses the political system and encourages devotion to the chosen leaders of each party. The messianic story that frames this zeal is a simplistic but powerful one. Your party leader is the Political Messiah, the one with the will and purity to wield power unselfishly to destroy evil, exult righteousness, and bring about the Utopia where all people have a “living wage,” businesses work for the “good of the people,” Nature is healed, social harmony is established, and peace reigns throughout a safe and prosperous nation. The only difference is which sect -the Democratic or Republican denomination- you believe will accomplish those goals. This naturally casts your denomination as the heroic one which automatically casts the other denomination as the wicked one and its leader the sum of all evils for your denomination -hence why to a Democrat every Republican is a Nazi and to a Republican every Democrat is a Communist or Socialist. And in the great messianic struggle your heroic figure needs to crush their demonic one. It is the story of Christ vs. Antichrist writ across the secular landscape.
You might think that the key to this would be that your proposed Messiah actually be worthy. You would be wrong. As Dr. Carlton J.H. Hayes explains the phenomena itself:
Nationalism, like any religion, calls into play not simply the will, but the intellect, the imagination, and the emotions. The intellect constructs a speculative theology or mythology of nationalism. The imagination builds an unseen world around the eternal past and the everlasting future of one’s nationality. The emotions feed the theological virtues of faith, hope, and filial love; they arouse a joy and ecstasy in the contemplation of the national god, who is all-good and all-protecting, a longing for His favours, a thankfulness for His benefits, a fear of offending Him, and feelings of awe and reverence at the immensity of His power and wisdom; they express themselves naturally in worship, both internal and external, both private and public. For nationalism, again like any other religion, is to a large extent a social function, and its chief rites are public rites, performed in the name and for the salvation of the whole community.
In other words, devotion to the Cult of the State and veneration of your denomination’s Political Messiah is not an intellectual, rational endeavor. It is a communal experience based on awe, reverence, joy, love, and ecstasy. It is fundamentally emotional in nature, appealing to the inner self and promising salvation and redemption for those who take part in the political rituals. This is why Democrats -even those who have publicly announced Biden sexually harassed them– will still vote for Joe Biden despite him being a lying, racist, warmongering, rapist. This is why Republicans will vote for Trump despite him being a lying, warmongering, racist, whoremonger. It isn’t about them anymore; it never was about them. It is about the communal religious experience of partisan politics and the absolution of sins -racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, hating America, being weak, being scared, etc.- that accompanies its rituals and the resulting emotional experience such absolution creates.
It is why people react like this to loss:
And it is why they act like this when they win (or really whenever their favored Messiah enters the room) :
In this overwhelmingly religious experience Joe Biden and Donald Trump aren’t really people. They’re prophets, saints, and saviors. They’re Symbols. And despite what the facts may be, a Symbol can be whatever you need it to be. They will have become the promised Political Messiah who will redeem first their political denomination, and then the nation, from its sins and save it from the dark threat of the Other Party. As long as they preach the dogma and stand as the Statum Vicarius they will have the allegiance first of their denomination and, upon victory, of the masses themselves.
In assuming the nomination it doesn’t actually matter who Biden or Harris are, that their sins are as grievous as Trump’s, or that they stand in opposition to many of the values the Democrats claim. By becoming the nominees they have come to embody the masses before the idol of the State in the same way that the Catholic priest represents the congregation before God and stands in as God to the congregation with all the rites carried out by him being valid even if he is in a state of deep wickedness personally. In the final analysis, the election victor will represent the God-State to the people, reducing its complexities of administrative ritual and its power to work miracles and wonders to one Vicar; in turn said winner will claim to represent the masses in Mass to the God-State, reducing the individualist impulses and beliefs of the hundreds of millions of people down to a single Representative will and force to be revered and obeyed. This religious reverence of the Leader and the State is the very essence of Fascism.