What might a Biden presidency look like? What might its policies look like.
First, foreign policy:
It is clear that those who favour Biden and who also favour a highly liberal agenda (as seen in pronouncements by Democrats for years now) will continue a regime change policy albeit framed with greater subtlety than before.
He and they will talk up the merits of their so-called “free world” and how it must be defended. They will talk in patronising terms about those nations that have chosen not to be regulated by the USA and its allies. The entire narrative they will use will attempt to convince the world to give them consent to engage in continued global interference.
They will talk of the many threats to the “free world”, to democracy, freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. They will remain blind and blinkered to the results of past interventions in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. They will remain blind and blinkered to the fact that corporations run America and its foreign policy through the agency of their lobbyists. They will remain blind and blinkered to the fact that there is no free mainstream media in the USA, it is all corporate-owned and covers world events only within a narrow, state-friendly spectrum and narrative.
Biden will look avuncular... a doddery old uncle who means well... even when he is touching up your sister. He will receive constant coaching and there will be extensive use of teleprompters. Speech-writers, as always will deliver the necessary words for him to mouth for best effect. It will all be 'America First’ re-branded. The usual public enemies of America will be castigated for their “interference” while actual U.S. interference will reach new peaks (if that is even possible). Military budgets will probably go to 75% of GDP with an enthusiastic Democratic Party dominating both houses applauded by the elites who fund them, most notably by those within the Military Industrial Complex.
What about back home?
Biden will talk of bringing all Americans together in unity. You have to question if this will have any success as Trump’s base will not have gone away, nor will have the tooled up militias or hate-fuelled White Nationalists. They will find something to hate in Biden soon enough and it must be extremely doubtful that they will be snowed by a few mild phrases from him talking of all Americans being one big family through good times and bad.
Though the elites will continue to run the show there will be a few more scraps for the great unwashed here and there. Social programs will be upped somewhat. Environmental issues will receive token support and warm words (and little action) will be voiced on Climate Change.
Biden will talk of healing. He will talk of working together again. He will resurrect the old catch phrases about the USA being the greatest nation on Earth. He will say “God Bless America” a LOT.
Biden’s presidency will be all about smoke and mirrors in a nation in near economic penury from the coronavirus pandemic, with unemployment remaining a massive problem, with foreclosures, redundancies, bankruptcies and the closure of shops and businesses still ongoing. But he will do his best to gloss it all over with the help of an able team of speech-writers.
For us out in the wider world we will hope for better things from the new presidency. But we will be disappointed. The same old rhetoric and condescending references will be made regarding those of us not regulated by the West in strict enough terms for it. The U.S. presence in Europe, Japan and elsewhere across hundreds of bases, and other dual-operated installations in myriad lands, will be boosted. NATO will feel safe and be rewarded with additional verbal support and most likely financial support also.
Russia will remain the boogie man, the scapegoat, the evil reincarnation of Nazi Germany and all things bad in the world including Uncle Joe’s penchant for running his hands over the bodies of any nearby women or children.
That’s about the size of it by my lights.
We will go from an obvious sociopath to a less obvious warmongering racist sex abuser.
Little will change of note... until Biden is replaced due to health issues.
That’s when Hillary Clinton’s surrogate takes over.
But that’s a topic for another time entirely...
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