What Is Lesser About Genocide?

The idea that ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden is “less” evil than the GOP is a lie.

Joining a pro-Palestine rally here in Albuquerque over the weekend posited an interesting question for me that I hadn’t earlier considered in such terms.

What is lesser about voting for a president who is actively supporting genocide as opposed to one who will only do so in theory? And while I am no Trump-voter, I have to admit that the question offers much moral consternation for the democratically-minded activist.

As a scarlet socialist, democratic mechanisms (not electoralism) are the key to the political ideals by which I try to live my life; it is impossible to realize truly communitarian socialism without acknowledging the levers by which such a system must exist if it is to be just, egalitarian, and beneficial to all of society and the planet we call home. In fact, I would argue that the technocratic dream of Earth beyond our home planet is flatly unviable without the robust social support structures necessary to mobilize the population to such a goal.

Judging by Capitalist history and the actions of our tech-hegemons, it could be reasonable to assume that warfare, the defining theme of history in the West, is what has propelled us to the state we find ourselves in today. The contemporary computer wouldn’t exist without the investment of the military, right? Have the imperialist conquests of Ukraine or Palestine resulted in less money being funneled into tech mega-companies? Have they slowed the financial mechanisms which float global Capital?

To anyone paying attention, the answer is a resounding “No.”

In fact, while hundreds of thousands have been direct casualties and millions more have had their lives irreversibly degraded by the conquests of the United States and its Western allies competing with imperialist Russia and theirs, Big Tech has only grown as more and more smart-sand is sent to kill children in Europe and the Middle East. Is there anything to call this other than evil? Is there something more villainous and depraved than profiteering off of base carnage while preaching objectivity?

And that is where the “lesser-evil” voting nonsense comes up. Is Joe Biden, current DNC royal and de facto king of the United States, any less evil than those he is ostensibly competing against? Trump? Perhaps, though I am no longer convinced of that fact after four years of Biden-style imperial conquest. Do the others matter at all; Dean Phillips, Marianne Williamson, Cornel West, RFK Jr., Jill Stein? Not according to the DNC.

If you listen to the Democratic party of Florida, there is no Primary contest this cycle. All delegates go to genocide, apartheid, and terrorism this season! If you are a Sunshine State voter, looks like you don’t even get a say in which evil is on the ballot this year, congrats on the complete surrender of your voice! Here in New Mexico, I get to vote “uncommitted,” and it is the least I can do in every possible way, when they finally roll around on June 4th this year. For voters in the Land of Enchantment, a profoundly intercultural State, our voice won’t be counted until another 30,000 women, children, and men are killed in three more months; once tens of thousands of babies have starved or died of exposure alongside the coast of the Mediterranean while our soldiers fecklessly build a “dock” too deliver more spoiled aid to the Israeli occupying force.

Which Presidents have overseen such wanton death in my lifetime? Who can I point to and say “they were way worse than the one actively supporting and lying for a genocidal, fascist regime in the Middle East. Well, all of them unfortunately, and that is the problem.

The truth that is now more apparent than ever, that is impossible to hide and deny, is that ALL U.S. Presidents are imperialists and bastards. They are all evil, and not a one of them is less-so than the last or next. The only “less-evil” thing is that one wears a Kente Cloth while the send 2000lbs bombs to the children of Gaza.

Vote to End US Terrorism in the Middle East. Vote Peace. Vote Uncommitted.

Photo: Father Rafael, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons