Reflections on “The Center” #1
Thinking about the funereal spectacle of the Democratic National Convention. This onetime mourning of and necrophiliac appeal to norms.
What it actually looks like is they held a convention for themselves and their true constituents in the Necropolis, and we on the party fringes, or outsiders, watched their recommitment to voodoo capital take place. What I heard, what I saw, what I believe is that where I feel defeat, loathing, betrayal, there is - obviously, as it has to be, like why would these millionaires and billionaires just commit several days to only shitting on my personal project - something else taking place.
I believe there is an ideological realignment or adjustment taking place, and not only among the Democrats but also with the Republicans. Together, the two party elites have clearly recognized we are in the midst of a free-falling crisis, and given the makeup of those two parties what can we deduce is their most likely response - save capital. Who am I to believe that they would reasonably look to radical alternatives to see their way out of this crisis? What makes more sense - that these millionaires and billionaires would throw in with people like me, represented by AOC/Bernie/even more radical folks? Or they would work with the forces of Capital to save and rearticulate the system through however this world is changing?