"I think history is going to show that in so many ways [Biden's presidency] was transformative" -- Kamala Harris

Harris' statement is correct, yet nobody, least of all her, wants to deal with the actual transformation. What is that transformation?

1) Let's start with Harris' proposals to, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, throw the bums a dime. It is now public knowledge that all Dem promises of doing anything for the mass public are retractable. How do we know this? It's easy: look at what the Democratic Party let Manchin and Synema do with the Build Back Better Act before they shot it down. So that's changed. Even Obama was able to do something about the health insurance crisis.

2) Democratic Party primaries are now transparently empty gestures. Want to know who will win? Ask the DNC chair. Don't bother voting in any of them. Just vote for whomever they choose, and if 7/8ths of the way through, they happen to choose someone different in a totally kewl palace coup, vote for that person.

3) Inflation/ dedollarization. With neoliberalism, the banks were so tightly in control of the economy that inflation was minimal. But 2021 and 2022 inflation was high by American standards, and it will probably return as the rest of the world ditches the US dollar.

4) War is now much hotter, and much more global, than it once was. This is especially apparent in Ukraine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Niger, Burma, Taiwan, and elsewhere. Maybe it will be nuclear war -- we are closer to nuclear war than we have EVER been, and we were mighty close under Kennedy. Let that sink in.

5) Genocide is now the party line, among both major parties and among the elites of US, Canada, Europe, Australia. Yeah, raw, Armenian-level, genocide. Free speech against genocide may cause you to lose your job. And god forbid if you try to be anti-genocide while attending or teaching at a university!

6) Trump, the main raison d'etre of the Democratic Party, now appears as the lesser evil, mostly because he promises to end the Ukraine atrocity, and largely because of his general laziness. But Trump will be evil, so vote for Stein.

7) Europe is in steep decline now. The UK is becoming an authoritarian Hell. France is a mess. Europe has demilitarized, and is now deindustrializing, while maintaining an anti-Russian stance it can't afford. Mostly this is because all of the CIA-picked "leaders" of Europe bought into the Ukraine scam.

8) America is now transparently an oligarchy, spreading anti-democratic sentiment around the world. Do not think the legal enshrinement of your rights and freedoms will protect you if you offend this oligarchy in the least and if they can be bothered to notice you.

9) BRICS is expanding, and will at some point create a global currency to replace the Dollar.

So, yes, Biden has been a transformative President. And the transformation continues!

There are two things though.

1) Whomever becomes President next January will be confronted with the vast legacy of the Biden administration as a fait accompli. We might say "oh gee, we need to stop all this stuff from happening!" but the horse has left the barn on that option. The bigger problem is that nobody is talking about this fait accompli. Rather, what we can expect, regardless of who wins, is a deep re-militarization of American society, complete with military draft. So that's what we'll be getting. Harris has promised it, and you know the Donald wants it. Perhaps this reality will be more clearly evident if Ukraine collapses before the election.

2) The greater fait accompli, of course, is that fifty years of neoliberalism has given us a world completely dominated by corporations and their billionaire owners. The public needs to confront the fact that it no longer lives in a world in which any official "leadership" will support them when the chips are down.

So we are no longer in the land of The Internationale, nor the Billy Bragg version, nor are we in the world of Jefferson Airplane's We Can Be Together nor of Volunteers. And democracy is certainly not coming to America, at least not yet. Rather:

And that's what we have to work with. Thanks, transformative President. You da man (though probably not for much longer).