A Sick, Dystopian System Worth Overthrowing
MAY 10, 2024 A Sick, Dystopian System Worth Overthrowing BY PAUL STREET Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Image by Clay Banks. Many friends and allies, especially younger ones, have been getting The Lecture from older Democratic Party relatives or friends – the Lesser Evil Lecture. This year the lecture comes not only with the admonition to hold your nose and vote for Joe Biden to get a second term to block the fascist monster Trump but also with the insistence or at least request that you not join in protests of Biden’s funding, equipping, and political, military, and diplomatic protection of Israel’s mass murderous and genocidal seven-month war on the people of Gaza. The lecturers say, “don’t come to Chicago to rise up in anger and cause chaos over Biden’s Israel policy when the Democratic Party meets to re-coronate him as their presidential nominee this August.” A version of the lecture recently came in the form of a Guardian column in which the senior progressive Democrat and for
