All the genociders must go

American Revolutionary theory states, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, that, “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson was a slaver and genocider but that doesn’t negate the truth of his statement. Chinese political theory had the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, which a ruler could lose, and which would give the people the right to rebel.

It’s a myth that Western democracies are messy and unstable compared to so-called authoritarian regimes in the Global South that are free to use repression to impose stability. In reality Western democracies are no less repressive: these states torture, assassinate, mass-incarcerate, and have police do what they like with no accountability. They use all the tools of the dictatorships they criticize, inflicting the same evils at the same scale. These days they do all of these things in the service of genocide.

What Western democracies have that others lack is several layers of defense protecting their system of brutality. These pressure releases make Western democracies much harder to overthrow, as they channel rebellious energy into one dead end after another.

The genocide Israel is committing in Gaza should have lost the whole Western elite its mandate, heavenly or otherwise. It should have exposed the Western elite as a total, genocidal, racist tyranny. By presenting fake divisions inside of this elite, they give the people false hopes that the genocide can be stopped while they remain in charge, if they could be asked in just the right way.

Wait for elections. Trump came in and imposed a ceasefire for a short time, before advancing the genocide to its worst level (and getting worse). Democrats argued that since both parties were genocidal, the strategic voter would vote for the Democrats because they’re better on other issues, and ignore the anti-genocide parties that were running (Stein/Ware, De la Cruz/Garcia…). The idea that there are differences between the parties about genocide makes people think there’s some anti-genocide strategy in voting instead of starting from the premise that all genocidal parties are illegitimate. People are apparently waiting for Israel’s democracy to produce an alternative to Netanyahu, ignoring the fact that there millions of Israelis who are just as genocidal as Netanyahu and who will eagerly continue the genocide were he replaced.

Wait for divisions. Apparently Obama hated Netanyahu when he gave him $38 billion. Biden yelled at him on the phone before giving him a thousand new one-ton bombs. Trump doesn’t answer Netanyahu’s calls and doesn’t mention Israel on a trip to Saudi Arabia (which is the historic norm and nothing special) as Israel gleefully embarks on mass starvation. The UK, Canada, and France have issued a “serious warning”, after 19 months of genocide and hundreds of thousands murdered as Israel celebrates.

This is what Piers is.

Piers Morgan, after becoming a caricature chasing genocide victims down to ask them if they condemn Hamas, tweets that Israel has gone too far. This is faked controversy and faked division in the most united and monstrous ruling class.

Decades ago, during one of Argentina’s economic crises, the people marched shouting the slogan, “que se vayan todos” - all of them must go. It should be common sense that there should not be any mass murderer or defender of mass murder in power anywhere.

It’s scary to take on people who are proudly displaying that they have no limits to their depravity. It’s natural to hope for cracks between them that might make the task easier. But the cracks are fake. And there’s no escaping the starting point: all the genociders must go.