“It reminds us of John Dewey’s claim that, “As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”
In the US, the two-party political system has proven extremely effective in this regard. Aside from differences on social issues like abortion and gay marriage, as well as socioeconomic issues like unemployment insurance and public assistance, both parties ultimately embrace capitalist/corporatist interests in that they both serve as facilitators for the dominant classes: The Republican Party in its role as forerunner, pushing the limits of the capitalist model to the brink of fascism; and the Democratic Party in its role as governor, providing intermittent degrees of slack and pull against this inevitable move towards a “corporate-fascistic state of being.” — “Calibrating the Capitalist State in the Neoliberal Era: Equilibrium, Superstructure, and the Pull Towards a Corporate-Fascistic Model” Colin Jenkins
from fuckcapitalism2020
And the other side is quite literally funding the people that want to ban those books and meeting with fascist heads of state in order to solidify an alliance for the next genocidal World War they are pursuing.
Lesser evilism may exist on some miniscule, selective, and temporary level for those living in the imperial core, but for the rest of the world, it’s just two brands of the same deranged psychopathy.