I do not wish to talk about Trump
I want to talk about American institutionalized violence and the necessity to destroy this empire before it destroys us all.
From Public Library:
I have no interest in talking about Trump’s inauguration today. As far as I am concerned, Trump is not uniquely evil… He is simply a part of an American legacy of Presidents who uphold Western supremacy, imperialism, and racism. The evils of the American presidency do not belong to a single man or a single party. This evil is bipartisan… The Biden Administration, in all of its genocidal, Islamophobic, anti-Arab cruelty, revealed the barely masked truth of the Democratic Party and its violent bigotry.
Today I want to talk about the legacy of Joe Biden… not the crowning of a new vile king. I want to talk about the holocaust of the Palestinian people Biden gleefully presided over. I want to talk about the complete destruction of Gaza and the poisoning of her land. I want to talk about the bodies of children… burned alive, crushed under rubble, riddled with bullets, some suffering a fate worse than death. I want to talk about the mothers’ screams that still haunt me in my sleep. I want to talk about a war on humanity unprecedented in human history… broadcast for the world to see… and an American president who is responsible for every drop of blood, every bomb, every death.
Today I do not wish to talk about Trump. I wish to bid good riddance to an administration straight from the depths of Hell. An administration responsible for unimaginable cruelties both abroad and at home. I want to talk about the mass deportations, the deaths at the border, the increase in police funding, the abandonment of pandemic precautions, the bulldozing of unhoused communities, the child poverty and food insecurity… I want to talk about a president who accomplished nothing… and instead slaughtered innocence itself. I want to talk about American institutionalized violence and the necessity to destroy this empire before it destroys us all.
As a fellow mountaineer, well said brother. I wish I had more words to express my solidarity.