The Democrats deserve blame in a “men make their own history but they do not make it as they please” sort of way. The bourgeois state can allow tolerate a certain range of options. And that range only narrows and neoliberalism enters its death spiral and the rate of profit falls without an obvious way out. The Democrats could try to actually become a party of the working class, but the capitalists would try to destroy them. Or if they succeeded, I genuinely believe you’d see a coup a la Chile in 1973.
That doesn’t excuse the Democrats, though. They are fully leaning into this.
The Democrats deserve blame in a “men make their own history but they do not make it as they please” sort of way. The bourgeois state can allow tolerate a certain range of options. And that range only narrows and neoliberalism enters its death spiral and the rate of profit falls without an obvious way out. The Democrats could try to actually become a party of the working class, but the capitalists would try to destroy them. Or if they succeeded, I genuinely believe you’d see a coup a la Chile in 1973.
That doesn’t excuse the Democrats, though. They are fully leaning into this.