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The Nov. 3 "Electile Dysfunction" — Bourgeois Democracy at work

by DLi
By all accounts, the U.S. Presidential election on Nov. 3 produced unprecedented confusion and acrimony. After nearly 2 weeks of uncertainty, it was determined that "Interventionist Joe" Biden won over the incompetent incumbent Donald Trump, aka Agent Orange, by more than 5 million votes. So, was it a clear repudiation of 4 years of a Failed USA State? Or, as mounting evidence seems to suggest, is it a classic case — as the apropos French saying goes — "The more things change, the more they stay the same"?
Before mainstream pundits go ballistic and start screaming, "Send that provocative author to the guillotine!," let me briefly explain. It's absolutely true that veteran Beltway insider Joe Biden is not the Swampy — as in Mar-a-Lago marsh — twitter maniac of Donald T-Rump. But looking at Biden's NeoLiberal transition team and his early cabinet picks, it's almost a sure bet that the highly-heralded and promised "wave of change" will likely amount to, A Diversification without a substantive Difference. Yes, there will be more women and minorities in the new Administration. Yet, almost all of them are either dyed-in-the wool NeoLiberal party apparatchiks or, even worse, staunch Imperial-minded foreign policy hawks such as Tony Blinken, newly-nominated Secretary of State. (See his proven record of consistent and rabid promotion of aggressive U.S. interventions, in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Iran.)

Meanwhile, Biden's choice for Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, is a conventional Wall Street-coddling ex-Fed chair, who — like her predecessor "Bailout Ben" Bernanke — oversaw endless rounds of near-zero percent interest rate and Quantitative Easing giveaways to the biggest Wall Street banksters and other monopolists. And Biden himself expressly told his wealthy supporters that — aside from minor tinkering (to appease to the desperation faced by tens of millions of workers) — there will be no effort to rein in the huge (reportedly $1 Trillion) windfall profits and executive pay of corporate CEOs, or even legislation that will slow down the astronomically-rising inequality in the nation's income disparity calamity.

There you have it. The highly-lauded (at least from the mainstream corporate media) "return to normalcy" will turn out to almost guarantee the veracity of an age-old worker response,"The New Boss? Same as the Old Boss!"?
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