History Will Not Be Good to Trump.

Richard Mellor

I remember when his show, The Apprentice, was all the rage. I never watched it. Apart from always seeing him as a repulsive individual, I certainly wasn’t drawn to a television show where a multi-millionaire (at the time) introduced the show with the phrase “You’re Fired”. Other than that phrase, I had no real idea what the show was about.

 

I have spent my conscious political life defending members of my own class from that fate, losing one’s means of subsistence. No small thing in a country where money is everything and when it comes to hardships and bad times, your own your own boy.

 

It didn’t surprise me one bit when he boasted of entering the dressing rooms where youn women on the show were changing. He could see them naked. He’s clearly a r*pist, a serial sexual abuser. 

 

While he is the most degenerate and disgusting example of the decaying US ruling class he is not the main problem here. He is the symptom of a social system in decay. US capitalism is engulfed in an economic, political and social crisis. It is under siege on the global stage and losing ground despite still being the most powerful economy and certainly the most powerful military. It is a wounded animal armed to the teeth. 

 

The assault on the working class at home has been intensifying under both Republican and Democratic Administrations alike as the era during which the two parties of capitalism that have dominated US political and economic life for over one hundred and fifty years comes to an end.

 

Yes Trump is despicable, but there are far nastier and more astute characters behind him. As I have stated before, those that seem to think the Democratic party is capable of defending the working class against fascism are terribly mistaken. It is not hard to see that this is the case both historically and in the present.

 

The US working class is not as infected with right wing racist ideas as the capitalist mass media would have us think. There are many reasons a cohesive, organized counter to the capitalist offensive has not yet arisen, both on the ground and in the political arena. What is certain in my mind is that it will. It must if we are to ensure that our children and grandchildren have a future, free from want and war, the two of the main pillars of capitalism