In the last twenty four hours European and American liberals have raced to express their solidarity with poor old Zelensky after his dressing down in the White House by Trump and Vance.
These are the same European and American liberals who not only couldn't bring themselves to express an ounce of solidarity with defenceless Palestinians as America's colony state went on an 18 month genocidal slaughter spree but who, in many cases, enthusiastically armed and funded this slaughter spree.
Liberal politicians who truly believe they’re striking a morally courageous pose over Ukraine provided the weapons, funding and political cover for the murder, rape, torture, dismemberment, beheading, and starvation of an entire population.
We’ve seen children without heads, the fleshy remains of babies scooped into plastic bags. We’ve seen pictures of boys with Down's Syndrome ripped apart by dogs, of quadriplegics sniped dead in their wheelchairs. We’ve seen hospitals invaded and cancer wards turned into forward operating bases. We’ve seen babies in incubators left to rot and die. We’ve seen soldiers with American, English, Scottish, Australian accents joke breezily about war crimes on Instagram stories, joint citizens of our countries who faced no punishment and seamlessly melted back into our societies, the blood of children dripping from their hands ignored by the good guy liberals. We’ve seen terror act after terror act gleefully perpetrated by a west-backed colony, a land devastated, made apocalyptic, reduced almost fully to rubble with missiles and bombs paid for by us. BY US.
But now, in headline after headline, statement after statement, these fucking liberals, who’ve displayed biblical levels of satanic death-eating depravity, who said the square route of fuck all about the gravest act that a state can ever inflict on a people, they’re desperate for us to feel sorry for a rich man sitting in the White House because Trump said some hurty words?
FUCK OFF.
Feel sorry for Zelensky? That’s great man of history bollocks, the idea of valour encapsulated in the man at the top of a power structure hierarchy. We should feel sorry, heartbroken and enraged by the fact half a million young men or more have died in this war. For families forever broken by the oldest and most gruesome of human follies. But the youthful dead and their families aren’t the ones to whom liberals are directing their solidarity.
Honest to god, they have a completely fucked up value system.
And let me tell you what you won’t hear from the media obsessing and whining over bullied little Zelensky. You won’t hear that at almost the exact moment Zelensky was walking out of the White House the Trump administration signed off on an emergency package of ‘military aid’ for Israel.
$3.01 billion in arms & equipment. On top of the $7 something billion from a few weeks ago. More than $10 billion in a few weeks.
They’ll say nothing about this. Nothing about this at all. Because they are murderous, racist, irredeemable scum who apply a selective morality to advance political and geopolitical agendas.
They’ll condemn Trump when he doesn’t play along with their imperial games but lose their tongues and their keyboards when he does.
Trump is an obscene and hideous character, but I blame liberals for all of it. All of it. Everything that’s happening.
For forty years liberal politicians and their media mouthpieces have actively deceived people and pretended to be the good guys to win support from genuinely good, pro-social people but once in power advanced evils that helped prise open the door for even greater evils to come.
They’ve deregulated, privatised and offshored, they’ve courted billionaires, destroyed unions and made war, all in the name of progressivism.
They’ve talked of science and climate change and then let viruses run rampant and fuelled biosphere collapse.
They’ve hijacked people’s innate goodness and turned it towards evil.
And it should make us fucking sick.
We should be sick and tired of this, of the liberal elite class's disguised racism, extreme hypocrisy and total moral impoverishment. We should be furious at them for abandoning ideas of justice, equity and a good life for all. We should despise a liberal class who long ago abandoned any commitment to anti-war ideals and now schill for war. We should recognise a liberal class who drill more oil than the bad guys, who finance and commit genocide for the irredeemable, soulless husks they are.
And we should never look to them to save us from evil, from horror, from fascism.
Their performative progressive bullshit is antithetical to the fight for a better world.
To save ourselves from these approaching horrors we have to end liberalism as a political force.
The Democratic Party in the US, the British Labour Party, the Liberal Party of Canada, Macron’s centrist En Marche party, the Australian Labor Party and all the others: they must die or otherwise be consigned to irrelevance.
I am begging you: never again try to turn these parties into vehicles for liberation.
Some of us tried, we really did.
We got close with Corbyn, but the deck was stacked.
And we should never EVER waste our energy trying again.
We need to let the uneasy left-ish voter coalition that fractured over Gaza lie dead forever.
We’ve got to turn the page and build something new.
How? What? I have no fucking idea.
Anarchism isn’t good enough.
Individualism isn’t good enough.
We need new pro-social options, new political figureheads, new movements, new political parties of the left. Anti-war, anti-elite, anti-oligarch, anti-billionaire, anti-capitalist.
Right now there is a kind of vacuum, a space waiting to be filled.
It feels hopeless to have nowhere to go.
But if we turn back to the traditional liberal parties out of fear at rising fascism or the lack of alternative options, we’ll snuff out the possibility of something new emerging in these vacuums.
One reason for hope is the explosion of alternative left and anti-imperial media. Where there is an audience, there will always be a viable something that can cater to it able to be created.
We have to hold our nerve.
If revolutionary conditions have to materialise before something new can be formed, if true vehicles for liberation can only be forged in the crucible of social decay, so be it.
But we should never again sell our souls for a dribble of liberal silver.
I have thoughts that thankfully Nate Bear expresses better than me!
I've lost some old friends over the ongoing Gaza genocide. Actually, not some, I no longer speak with any of my childhood friends.
The Warsaw ghetto of WWII is not an historical abstraction, it has relocated to Gaza and the West Bank. The identity of the current protagonists in human misery is beyond ironic.
Getting a party that addresses real needs of its members in the U.S. is going to take awhile. The duopoly lock on ballot line access is going to be a tough nut to crack. What can give us a boost would be a successful campaign to unionize WalMart and Amazon.
Nate thank you so very much for your moral consistency.