It is November 17th and our last post was on October 27th about accreditation. It is natural that we were distracted by that disastrous national election campaign (the campaign was a disaster; I will get to the result). Never before was so much money spent to spew racism and negativity. Never was an optimistic vision so absent, except for Trump's racist vision. Never were so many voters alienated from both candidates.
Still many were perhaps more distressed by the result. I was shocked because I, like many others, was misled by media projections. In retrospect, I should not have been surprised about the results. There were two obvious factors: dissatisfaction with the way the capitalist system has been failing people and racism toward immigrants and black folk.
However, just as people were irrationally euphoric about Obama's victory (particularly in 2008), I believe many of us are irrationally depressed by Trump's. In fact some Obama voters went for Trump, the common factor being promise of change.
Still Trump's victory is encouraging the gutter sexists and racists to engage in assaults on the streets. Just in the last week in Davis, a liberal California town, I have heard of two verbal assaults on women, one involving two men following her to her car and threatening to surround her (she found a group of men that put the assaulters on the run). One thing we can to is react forcibly to any verbal (or worse) assaults on people.
On my campus, I put out the flyer that follows. Many of you will recognize my point of view. I hope you will join me, based on your own convictions, in active resistance to racism and sexism.
I miss seeing so many of you. Let's continue to be in touch.
Paul
Here's our flyer:
Dump Trump?
DUMP CAPITALISM!
The U.S. ruling class offered us a choice
between (A) a known racist, imperialist war-monger (Clinton) and (B) a blatant
sexist (bragging about sexual assaults, insulting women), open gutter racist
against Muslims and immigrants, and maybe the biggest liar U.S. politics has
ever seen (Trump). Voters picked what many regard as the greater evil.
It’s hard to imagine much worse than Trump.
His victory will encourage other gutter racist and sexist assaults. Even some
people who voted for him didn’t like him but felt they
needed to protest what was happening to their lives. The capitalists’ drive for
maximum profits has devastated U.S. workers, particularly black and latino
workers, but many others as well.
Still, we should beware of U.S. nationalism
and U.S.-centrism. Workers in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya,
Somalia, and Palestine are under bombing and other assaults from the U.S. and
its allies. Forty-three students in Mexico were murdered with the cooperation
of the government allied with the U.S. From the point of view of workers and
students in these other countries there’s not much difference between Trump and
Clinton.
The attack on the jobs of U.S. workers, the
growth of mass incarceration, the terror of deportations, the increase of
anti-black and anti-latino racism by street cops have occurred under the
Republican and Democratic presidencies of Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and
Obama, with Hillary Clinton along with Kerry implementing bombings of workers
all over the world. This is the reality of imperialism in the United States, in
Africa, in Latin America, in the Middle East, in South Asia, and in the rest of
the world where the United States has made war ever since the end of the last
World War.
FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
There is an alternative; it doesn’t have to
be like this. Workers can and will fight racism and sexism, at the same time
that they fight to improve their own lives and unite with sisters and brothers
around the world. We can unite, overthrow the capitalist bosses, and create a
communist world where we cherish each other and create opportunity for all our
children.
Workers of the World, Unite!
www.plp.org
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