walz being as evil as everyone else when it comes to US foreign policy is a good reminder that no matter what the political system will not allow anyone oppositional to US Foreign Interests in high office. it makes sense since that's the one policy issue more than anything which truly represents a (political) existential threat to US global hegemony, and the US (and global West) itself. the world we as US citizens live in is directly, indisuptably built on, and can only continue to exist with, the blood and life of the global (and domestic) dehumanized exploited Other; whatever its rationalizations, US foreign policy acts to maintain that. there's no grand conspiracy there, it's just how capitalism has always worked.
it's still good that the VP is at least domestically progressive and it's right to celebrate that--a "progressive" liberal government is still easier to build anti-capitalist power under than a conservative one, in many ways, and we should keep fighting to ensure we get it. but we then need to take advantage of it and do the work for more fundamental change, or else that power is neutralized by complacency.
just figured i'd establish my politics here, hehe. the world is bad
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