shrew capitalists, the shrew imperialists knew that the only way people would run to the fox (Johnson) would be if you showed them the wolf (Goldwater).” This is precisely the political situation we find ourselves in today. We are forced to vote not for our hopes and dreams, but rather to negate our fears. In 2020 it’s the “same old song.” Since Malcolm’s time, both capitalist parties have devolved. The neoliberal racist capitalist Democratic party has been transformed into vampires. They seduce and mesmerize us. To paraphrase Malcolm, they hoodwink, bamboozle and consume our blood, sweat and tears, daily, a few pints at a time. While the Republicans have been more bestial (at least since the Great Depression), the party of archconservative neoliberals have been transformed into werewolves. They lack the sophistication and control of the Democratic blood suckers. Their racist bloodlust is not measured. It’s uncontrollable. They don’t just maim and kill slowly; they murder and devour in fits of hatred. Their white supremacist desires run far beyond oppression and exploitation; their hunger for a white ethno-state or at least the maintenance of white supremacy has given them an appetite for genocide. The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement exists to fight for self-determination. We oppose both U.S. racist political parties—the Democratic vampires and Republican werewolves. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both white racist monsters. This truth should not lead us to a false equivalency. The stakes demand that we recognize the significant similarities and the fundamental differences between Biden and the neoliberal Democrats and Trump and his fascist hordes. Each monster represents a different menace. Biden does not necessarily represent a change in direction. He will maintain the U.S. neoliberal agenda which has been the north star for U.S. presidents since Ronald Reagan. Under Biden, even in the unlikely change he chooses a liberal Black woman as vice president, the U.S. would remain a racist capitalist empire dominated by its financial sector. As the representative of transnational capital, the banks and credit card companies, Biden portents a drastic slowing down of the pace toward a fascist police state, however. Corporate Joe is not a solution; he is a different type of problem. While Biden will undermine the push toward social transformation in pursuit of minimalist social reforms, that is preferable to a full scale thrust toward fascism. In fact, Biden’s triumph 45
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