You could get rid of both Biden and Trump, whoever replaced them would be beholden to the same imperial corporate interests and be just as vile with their policies.
You could do Putin or Zelenskyy in, and another capitalist oligarch would just take their places.
If Netanyahu disappeared tomorrow, Israel has plenty of genocidal politicians ready to fill his boots.
The real world isn’t a Marvel movie, there is no single “ultimate bad guy” to rally against. The entire systems of these places need to be overcome.
Good post, I get worried hearing libs, or Israeli people, complain about Netenyahu; it’s a distraction from the root issue. Like Derek Chauvin being convicted, it’s good that he had some consequences but it legitimizes the system that enables the murder. Netenyahu gets ousted, new elections in Israel, and libs will say “look at that, he was bad and they kicked him out, Israel is a bastion of freedom and democracy!”
They’re individual agents who are responsible but they’re just fulfilling roles.
The “cult of personality” is encouraged by design. Putting all focus and blame on individuals shields the system from being scrutinized.
Careful, whenever a lib witnesses the gestalt it breaks their brain and sends them careening into gibbering madness, like in an HP Lovecraft story.
Now your dreams will never again be so peaceful. You will see capital in your nights, like a nightmare, that presses you and threatens to crush you. With terrified eyes you will see it get fatter, like a monster with one hundred proboscises that feverishly search the pores of your body to suck your blood. And finally you will learn to assume its boundless and gigantic proportions, its appearance dark and terrible, with eyes and mouth of fire, morphing its suckers into enormous hopeful trumpets, within which you’ll see thousands of human beings disappear: men, women, children. Down your face will trickle the sweat of death, because your time, and that of your wife and your children will soon arrive. And your final moan will be drowned out by the happy sneering of the monster, glad with your state, so much richer, so much more inhumane.
—Carlo Cafiero, Summary of Marx’s Capital (1879)
The one caveat is that Netanyahu needs genocide mode to roll on because if it ends he faces criminal punishments for fraud and corruption. Of course, the fact that genocide mode keeps the Israeli leadership and populace at large happy shows that his bloodlust isn’t an anomaly.
