People like Trump are reared in households and taught by institutions all across the U.S.
For 70 years, Trump was groomed by society to become the current U.S. president.
For 70 years, he was taught and rewarded by all who condoned him as a racist.
For 70 years, he was taught and rewarded by all who encouraged him or turned away as he assaulted women.
For 70 years, he was taught and rewarded by a capitalist system to exploit and oppress Black people.
For 70 years, he was taught and rewarded by fellow members of the rich ruling class to exploit and oppress working class people here and around the world.
People like Trump use racism and all forms of oppression to fan the flames of fascism. They do this not only because they are allowed to, but because in doing so, they are awarded the highest positions of political power in the United Snakes of America.
Fascism exists under capitalism, as a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power. It rises as a forcible suppression of opposition to the working class in the facing of a system that exploits and oppresses. It rises as strong regimentation of society and of the economy, particularly when capitalism is struggling, crumbling and doing all it can to preserve itself. Fascism is the force that restricts workers from organizing and forming unions. But when we recognize it for what it is, we can defeat it.
Even when it seems like fascism is rising, seemingly over night, we know this is not the case.
Fascism is taught and perpetuated each time mainstream media provides a platform to racists.
Fascism is taught and perpetuated each time Black people are gunned down by police with no consequence.
Fascism is taught and perpetuated each time people believe and declare the false narrative that the police are here to ‘protect and serve’ ordinary people, when their real function is to protect the rich, their profits and private property.
Fascism is taught and perpetuated when women, gender nonconforming people, people with disabilities, people of color, and undocumented people are assaulted and denied basic human rights.
Fascism is taught and furthered when we tolerate that the US is the prison capital of the world, to include concentration camps that have been rebranded as “detention centers.”
Fascism is taught and tolerated each time religious leaders and the elected officials say, "we must pray about it," after terror has been waged upon the very people that offer their last to the collection plates and who look to them for leadership in times of suffering.
To teach about prayer and not armed protection in the face of armed terror is dangerous. To teach about faith and not “works” that can materialize that faith hinders the people’s ability to progress in a spirit of self-determination and is ultimately hazardous to the people’s safety.
People like Trump exist in a SYSTEM created by and for the rich ruling class of this country—a system that brands itself as a democracy but is in fact just a capitalist state headed for fascism if the people don’t rise up. There is no democracy in a country where one must be a millionaire or billionaire to even afford the cost of running for elected positions in this country. This system wants us to believe that we are witnessing a fight between the Republicans and the Democrats. But that is an illusion. Rich white men use their bourgeois elected officials as puppets to dangle carrots and sprinkle crumbs above the masses of oppressed working people to temper our resistance and prevent us from rising up against a SYSTEM that exploits and oppresses us. This is the case whether those elected officials are Republican or Democrat.
In fact, it was Democratic presidents like Clinton who helped inflate the prison industrial complex to the highest incarceration levels in all the world’s history. It was Democratic politicians like Obama who drone bombed ten times as many countries around the world in the name of capitalist imperialism than his racist conservative predecessor Bush. And it was Democratic presidents like Obama and Biden, who passed legislation to uphold the big banks and gave them big payouts with our tax dollars during this country’s last major economic recession caused by capitalist greed, while they left working class people of all so-called races to lose life savings and fend for self.
It is this kind of capitalist neglect of the working class spearheaded by BOTH parties, that leaves working class whites easier to be puppet strung by the fascist propaganda of a Donald Trump. They fall for his racist propaganda because it is all they’ve ever known and historically, it’s what they’ve turned to every time the capitalist system failed them. This goes as far back as the Civil War and beyond. Trump employs racist trickery because like Hitler, he is using the last trick that capitalists always resort to when their system is on its last legs.
We are witnessing the crumbling of this system, and it is up to the working masses to ensure that it is socialism and not fascism that rises from the ashes of 402 years of white nationalism and capitalist exploitation of the people and the land.
And while the owners of the system are trying to save themselves, we, the working masses are forced to suffer from the unbearable burden of unemployment, low wages, lack of housing, and inability to pay for food and healthcare, which are all human rights!
These puppets want us to believe that all of our troubles will go away by electing another bourgeoisie politician, so that poor and working-class people can fight amongst ourselves while the rich continue to seize our land, steal the profits of our labor, disregard our dignity as they oppress our very existence, and criminalize us for resisting their exploitation and oppression.
Yet the real thieves and criminals are the white rich ruling class who have always controlled the elected officials of this country. It is the ruling class who stole everything they used to build this country on land stolen from Indigenous people and turned it into private property to be extracted from, divided up, sold and profited from over and over again. The U.S. was built with the labor of Black enslaved people. It continues to be rebuilt by Black workers and Brown migrant workers that come to the U.S in pursuit of a dream only to find a nightmare! Some flee their homelands for the U.S., driven to this country by the hands of rich men’s wars that create refugees in the first place.
We know this and understand our oppression clearly just like our revolutionary ancestors did. The blood and spirit of our revolutionary ancestors is rising in us with each moment, and we honor them by refusing to stand by and allow fascism to threaten our lives and existence one more time. Wherever we witness exploitation and oppression, we will rise up and revolt against the exploitation and oppression.
Last week, we witnessed a collaboration between the democratic party and the republican party working hand in hand. We witnessed the white terrorist vigilante’s in collaboration with the police aka the pigs. Our communities have witnessed and experienced the heavy hand of state repression too many times to count. That hand was clearly held back last week and we know why. Therefore, we must build our own alternative to what we see. We welcome you to join us in that effort at our next action: J20NOLA.