Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog!

Here’s the deal: no one is going to cow me into voting for Biden. I find it difficult, actually, to discern a difference between the two that goes beyond presentation.

What of the previous administration’s outrageous policies have the Biden administration reversed?

Ohhhh but families aren’t being separated at the border anymore!

No, indeed… families are dissuaded from crossing at all by the lure of an administrative entry, but meanwhile they’re living in extremely dangerous conditions, liable to being enslaved. Stuck in refugee camps along this bullshitted border, their only option is to be one of a few thousand every morning who are granted an appointment to begin an application process that takes years. It’s like trying to get concert tickets, except the ‘prize’ is the possibility of eventual admission to the US: the process, anxiety, disappointment, all that is the same, but with actual stakes. So, no, indeed, a daughter won’t be separated from her mother by the US, but the chances of her daughter being captured and enslaved grows tremendously, just as her sons face the same threat, provided they don’t die of starvation, disease, bad water, etc etc…

But we’re out of Afghanistan finally!

Yeah… we withdrew from Afghanistan… according to the previous administration’s withdrawal plans that anyone with a brain had already known was going to be a disaster. There was no reason for us to have left the way we did, ceding everything to the Taliban. There was no reason for us to have acted with such a lack of urgency in the months before the departure especially in regard to those people who had been associated with the Coalition, whose lives were obviously going to be threatened by a resurgent Taliban. But the only defense Biden offered us was to declare that we had to get out of Afghanistan without any regard for the way we got out. It’s shameful. To this day there are many many thousands of Afghan refugees, made refugees by our incompetence, who are once again suffering for our continued negligent incompetence by being refused an orderly admission to the country they allied themselves with. How many other foreign peoples are ever going to ally themselves to us? Ha! When they see how we treat allies? Please…

But the environment! He did the environment bill!

There’s a phrase I used to hear a lot in the 90s but haven’t heard much since: Too little, too late. This is real. There is such a thing as too little too late.

Oh, but it opens the door to more!

LOL! After the absolute hell it took to get that crappy thing passed?! You really think there’s going to be room to do more? How, concretely?

But all the tax rebates! Incentives! Subsidies!

Ok well, first, those are rebates. You have to have the money in the first place to purchase things that qualify for a tax write off.

We’re being told to buy electric vehicles! Electrification is good! Undeniably solar is better: go solar asap. Don’t wait. Do it now if you are able. Electric is potentially renewable. Natural gas is not. Electric does not itself add emissions; natural gas, like all fossil fuels, add greenhouse gases when they are used. Go solar. If you have access to a stream, go hydro. If you have access to geothermal, use it. Unless somehow you never have a breeze, put up windmills.

But. Let’s think about this: it takes mining, processing, production and transportation to make those panels, hydro-stations, and windmills. It takes people harming themselves as much as coal miners, if not worse, to dig up the lithium, nickel, and this and that, the rare earth metals, etc. If there are plastic components, those plastics are sourced from the byproducts of refining oil.

In short, we’re being encouraged to purchase things that are not typically good-forever goods. Goods that are themselves the result of exploitation of land, animals and ourselves. Yeah, great, gimme those rebates just as soon as I get three jobs just to afford the payments on a car on top of insane housing costs. Great plan, guys.

What we need to do immediately is all of us come together as a world-wide species and think out our actual needs and the least destructive ways to meet them.

Eg, corporate offices. If you don’t sell your physical labor, what the hell do you need to be in a designated building for that? In all seriousness. Isn’t that a huge waste of our precious resources when you’re great-great-great-great-granddaughter’s granddaughter and her grandchildren might need that water to drink, might need those metals in the ground to survive?

What we cannot do at all is carry on with Boomer-era business as usual. That mentality quite literally destroyed everything—being, I believe, the culmination of several generations of effort to exploit what resources were once held to be inexhaustible. But what we’ve ended up with from the ‘inflation reduction act’ is the kind of gradualism that will literally damn our descendants to a hell on earth.

Oh but he has restored relations with the rest of the world!

Yeah right. This moment of open genocide in Palestine—distinct from the Nakba that has never ended since the ceasefire 1948, the everyday acts of an unseen genocide—has revealed plainly to the entire world and to an increasing number of Americans that the US is a Superproblem.

And tell me, how’re women’s rights being protected by Congress? What did Congress do while they were in control? They campaigned on this horrific attack on women’s rights instead of acting while they had a majority to pass legislation guaranteeing women their rights. They acted as if it were an affront to their dignity that the SCOTUS decision emphatically pointed the finger at congressional inaction on the issue so that a legal decision had been left to stand in for actual legislation—which is, after all, the basis on which legal issues are decided. Did they meet right away in the moment and pass legislation for women’s rights? They did not. (But pssst… somehow a bill on LGBTQIA+ rights was passed.)

To me this involves a cynical play of the democratic caucus to get women voting and to get more of these women voting them into power. After all, voter turnout is abysmal in this country. As in, a minority of eligible voters actually votes in any given election. A more realistic reading posits that this, like so much else, is due to precisely the inability of so many of our elected officials to be actually the leaders they portray themselves to be: bark and panic, no bite.

Truly it may be better to have the essence and systems that compose ‘America’ directly exposed in the manner of the previous administration. At least then nearly everyone could see the problems instead of only those especially obsessive thinkers who fixate on liberation politics, i.e. your average leftist. Back then people were in the streets because the hornets were stinging outright instead of concealing their attacks in parasitic embraces that wring us dry gradually enough that most of us don’t notice.

Anyway, y’all can miss me with that ‘vote for this genocidal capitalist exploiter because his genocidal capitalist exploitation comes with hugs! But anyway do it because that other guy is a genocidal capitalist exploiter!’ It’s time we all were able to realize that our entire system has been built and is running on a genocidal (and ecocidal) capitalist exploitation of all people foreign and domestic, and the earth entire.

That walking combover is like a spotlight revealing the awfulness inherent in our systems. No one, let alone the upper class and their upper middle class fans, can ignore the injustices that others in the past papered over with cloudy language. And it’s when those who benefit from the system get angry about the system that systems tend to be changed.

But at the end of the day, tell me how our current electoral problem is not the result of Joe Biden’s ego. He’s the only one who can stop Trump, he claims. That’s fascist rhetoric. He can’t stop Trump: it is the people who are meant to stop authoritarians. He will lose this election, and he must realize that he will lose but here he is anyway, counting on us being so repulsed by his opponent he gets a free pass. I’m fresh out of free passes, though, aren’t you?