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*By Chris Hedges* / Original to ScheerPost

Don’t be fooled by Joe Biden. He knows his infrastructure and education 
bills have as much chance at becoming law as the $15-dollar minimum wage 
or the $2,000 stimulus checks he promised us as a candidate. He knows 
his American Jobs Plan will never create “millions of good paying 
jobs – 
jobs Americans can raise their families on” any more than NAFTA, which 
he supported, would, as was also promised, create millions of good 
paying jobs. His mantra of “buy American” is worthless. He knows the 
vast majority of our consumer electronics, apparel, furniture and 
industrial supplies are made in China by workers who earn an average of 
one or two dollars an hour and lack unions and basic labor rights. He 
knows his call to lower deductibles and prescription drug costs in the 
Affordable Care Act will never be permitted by the corporations that 
profit from health care. He knows the corporate donors that fund the 
Democratic Party will ensure their lobbyists will continue to write the 
laws that guarantee they pay little or no taxes. He knows the corporate 
subsidies and tax incentives he proposes as a solution to the climate 
crisis will do nothing to halt oil and gas fracking, shut down 
coal-fired plants or halt the construction of new pipelines for 
gas-fired power plants.  His promises of reform have no more weight than 
those peddled by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who Biden slavishly 
served and who also promised social equality while betraying working men 
and women.

Biden is the epitome of the empty, amoral creature produced by our 
system of legalized bribery. His long political career in Congress was 
defined by representing the interests of big business, especially the 
credit card companies based in Delaware. He was nicknamed Senator Credit 
Card. He has always glibly told the public what it wants to hear and 
then sold them out. He was a prominent promoter and architect 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/joe-biden-crime-laws.html>of a 
generation of federal “tough on crime” laws that helped militarize the 
nation’s police and more than doubled the population of the world’s 
largest prison system with harsh mandatory sentencing guidelines and 
laws that put people in prison for life for nonviolent drug crimes, even 
as his son struggled with addiction. He was a principal author of the 
Patriot Act, which began the stripping away of our most basic civil 
liberties. And there has never been a weapons system, or a war, he did 
not support.

Nothing substantial will change under Biden, despite the 
hyperventilating about him being the next FDR. Biden’s request for $715 
billion for the Defense Department in fiscal year 2022, a $11.3 billion 
(1.6 percent) increase over 2021, will support the disastrous military 
provocations with China and Russia he embraces, the endless wars in the 
Middle East and the bloated defense industry. Wholesale government 
surveillance will not be curbed. Julian Assange will remain a target. 
The industries that were shipped overseas and the well-paying unionized 
jobs will not return. The grinding machinery of predatory capitalism, 
and the sadism that defines it, will poison the society as mercilessly 
under Biden as it did when Donald Trump was conducting his Twitter 
presidency.

Sadism now defines nearly every cultural, social and political 
experience in the United States. It is expressed in the greed of an 
oligarchic elite that has seen its wealth increase during the pandemic 
by $1.1 trillion while the country has suffered the sharpest rise in its 
poverty rate in more than 50 years.  It is expressed in extra-judicial 
killings by police in cities such as Minneapolis. It is expressed in our 
complicity in Israel’s wholesale killing of unarmed Palestinians, 
the 
humanitarian crisis engendered by the war in Yemen and our reigns of 
terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. It is expressed in the torture in 
our prisons and black sites. It is expressed in the separation of 
children from their undocumented parents, where they are held as if they 
were dogs in a kennel.

The historian Johan Huizinga, writing about the twilight of the middle 
ages, argued that as things fall apart sadism is embraced as a way to 
cope with the hostility of an indifferent universe. No longer bound to a 
common purpose, a ruptured society retreats into the cult of the self. 
It celebrates, as do corporations on Wall Street or mass culture through 
reality television shows, the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial 
charm, grandiosity and self-importance; a need for constant stimulation; 
a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for 
remorse or guilt. Get what you can, as fast as you can, before someone 
else gets it. This is the state of nature, the “war of all against all,” 
Thomas Hobbes saw as the consequence of social collapse, a world in 
which life becomes “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” And this 
sadism, as Friedrich Nietzsche understood, fuels a perverted, sadistic 
pleasure.

The only way out for most Americans is to serve, as Biden does, the 
sadistic machine. The impoverishment of the working class has 
conditioned tens of millions of Americans to accept being recruited into 
the service of the militarized police that function as lethal armies of 
internal occupation; a military that carries out reigns of terror in 
foreign occupations; intelligence agencies that torture in global black 
sites; the government’s vast network of spying on the citizenry; the 
theft of personal information by credit agencies and digital media; the 
largest prison system in the world; an immigration service that hunts 
down people who have never committed a crime and separates children from 
their parents to pack them in warehouses; a court system that condemns 
the poor to decades of incarceration, often for nonviolent crimes, and 
denies them a jury trial; companies that carry out the dirty work of 
evictions, shutting off utilities, including water, collecting usurious 
debts that force people into bankruptcy and denying health services to 
those that cannot pay; banks and payday lenders that burden the 
destitute with predatory, high-interest loans; and a financial system 
designed to keep most of the country locked in a crippling debt peonage 
as the wealth of the oligarchic elite swells to levels unseen in 
American history.

These are some of the few jobs that are well compensated. They bring 
with them feelings of omnipotence, for the victims are largely 
powerless. In service to the state or corporations, employees can abuse, 
humiliate and even kill with impunity, as the near daily murder of 
unarmed civilians by the police illustrates. This service to monolithic 
centers of power absolves people of moral choice. It imparts a God-like 
omnipotence.

We know what this sadism looks like. It looks like Derek Chauvin 
nonchalantly choking to death George Floyd as his police colleagues 
watch impassively. It looks like Andrew Brown Jr. shot five times by 
police in North Carolina, including once in the back of the head. It 
looks like Abner Louima, who had a broomstick pushed up his rectum by 
police in a bathroom at the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn, 
requiring three major operations to repair the internal injuries. It 
looks like Navy Seal Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher randomly 
shooting to death unarmed civilians and using a hunting knife to 
repeatedly stab to death an injured, sedated 17-year-old Iraqi prisoner 
and then photographing himself with the corpse. It looks like Iraqi 
civilians, few of whom had anything to do with the insurgency, naked, 
bound, beaten and sexually humiliated and raped, and at times murdered, 
by army guards and private contractors in Abu Ghraib. Prisoners in Abu 
Ghraib were routinely dragged across the prison floor by a rope tied to 
their penises and chemical lights were used to sodomize them or snapped 
open so the phosphoric liquid could be poured over their naked bodies. 
It looks like women who are tortured, beaten, degraded and sexually 
violated, often by numerous men, in porn films, who are then discarded 
after a few weeks or months with severe trauma, along with sexually 
transmitted diseases and vaginal and anal tears that must be repaired 
surgically.

  Sadistic societies condemn segments of the population – in 
America 
these are poor Blacks, Muslims, the undocumented, the LGBTQ community, 
radical anti-capitalists, intellectuals – as human refuse. They are 
viewed as social contaminants. Laws, institutions and bureaucratic 
structures are built in sadistic societies that function, in the words 
of Max Weber, as an “inanimate machine.” The machine forces most people 
into the mass, but it allows some willing to do its dirty work to rise 
above the multitude. Those that carry out the sadism on behalf of the 
power elite fear being pushed back into the mass. For this reason, they 
energetically carry out the degradation, cruelty and sadism the machine 
demands. The more they insult, persecute, torture, humiliate and kill, 
the more they seem to magically widen the divide between themselves and 
their victims. This is why Black police and corrections officers can be 
as cruel, and sometimes crueler, than their white counterparts.

The sadism eradicates, at least momentarily, the sadist’s feelings of 
worthlessness, vulnerability and susceptibility to pain and death. It 
imparts pleasure. I was beaten by Saudi military police and later by 
Saddam Hussein’s secret police when I was taken prisoner after the first 
Gulf War. The goons carrying out my beatings clearly enjoyed them. 
Israel’s abuse of the Palestinians, the assaults of Muslims and girls 
and women in India and the denigration of Muslims in the countries we 
occupy are part of a global breakdown that extends beyond the United 
States. Wilhelm Reich in “The Mass Psychology of Fascism” 
and Klaus 
Theweleit in “Male Fantasies” argue that sadism, along with a grotesque 
hyper-masculinity, rather than any coherent belief system, is the core 
of fascism, although communist regimes in China and the Soviet Union 
could be as murderous and sadistic as their fascist counterparts.

Jean Amery, who was in the Belgian resistance in World War II and who 
was captured and tortured by the Gestapo in 1943, defines sadism “as the 
radical negation of the other, the simultaneous denial of both the 
social principle and the reality principle. In the sadist’s world, 
torture, destruction, and death are triumphant: and such a world clearly 
has no hope of survival. On the contrary, he desires to transcend the 
world, to achieve total sovereignty by negating fellow human beings – 
which he sees as representing a particular kind of ‘hell.’”

Amery’s point is important. A sadistic society is about collective 
self-destruction. It is the apotheosis of a society deformed by 
overwhelming experiences of loss, alienation and stasis. The only way 
left to affirm yourself in failed societies is to destroy. Johan 
Huizinga in his book “Waning of the Middle Ages” noted that that the 
dissolution of medieval society provoked “the violent tenor of life.” 
Today, this “violent tenor of life” drives people to carry out police 
murders, evictions of families, court-ordered bankruptcies, the denial 
of medical care to the sick, suicide bombings and mass shootings. As the 
sociologist Emil Durkheim understood, those who seek the annihilation of 
others are driven by desires for self-annihilation. Sadism imparts the 
rush and pleasure, often with heavy sexual overtones, which lures us 
towards what Sigmund Freud called the death instinct, the instinct to 
destroy all forms of life, including our own. When enveloped by a 
death-saturated world death, ironically, is embraced as the cure.

Corporate capitalism, which has perverted the values of American society 
to commodify its every aspect, including human beings and the natural 
world, and teaching us that the dictates of the market should govern 
every aspect of our existence, is infused with sadism. It is about the 
pleasure derived from exploiting others, as Frederick Nietzsche wrote in 
“On the Genealogy of Morals:”

[T]he creditor is given a kind of pleasure as repayment and compensation 
– the pleasure of being allowed to discharge his power on a powerless 
person … the delight in ‘/de fair le mal pour le plaisir de le faire/’ 
[doing wrong for the pleasure of it], the enjoyment of violation. This 
enjoyment is more highly prized the lower and baser the debtor stands in 
the social order, and it can easily seem to the creditor a delicious 
mouthful, even a foretaste of a higher rank. By means of the 
‘punishment’ of the debtor, the creditor participates in a right 
belonging to the masters. … The compensation thus consist of a 
permission for and right to crueltyEnron energy traders, in a dialogue 
that could have come from any large corporation, were caught on tape in 
2000 discussing “stealing” from California, sticking it to “Grandma 
Millie.” Two traders, identified as Kevin and Bob, dismissed demands by 
California regulators for refunds because of the company’s constant 
price-gouging.

Kevin: So the rumor's true? They're fucking takin' all the money back from you guys? All those money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?

Bob: Yeah, Grandma Millie, man. But she's the one who couldn't figure out 
how to fucking vote on the butterfly ballot.

Kevin: Yeah, now she wants her fucking money back for all the power you've charged for fucking $250 a megawatt hour.

Bob: You know – you know – you know, Grandma Millie, she's the one that Al Gore's fightin' for, you know?

Later in the same conversation, Kevin and Bob denigrate Californians.

Kevin: Oh, best thing that could happen is fucking an earthquake, let that thing float out to the Pacific and put 'em fucking candles.

Bob: I know. Those guys – just cut 'em off.

Kevin: They're so fucked and they're so like totally – –

Bob: They are so fucked.

We will not extract ourselves from predatory capitalism and its culture 
of sadism with meager government handouts. We will not extract ourselves 
because Biden’s slick speech writers and public relations specialists, 
who use polls and focus groups to feed back to us what we want to hear, 
can make us feel the administration is on our side. There is no good 
will in the Biden White House, the Congress, the courts, the media – 
which has become an echo chamber of the privileged classes – or 
corporate boardrooms. They are the enemy.

We will extract ourselves from this culture of sadism the way the 
dispossessed extracted themselves from the stranglehold of crony 
capitalism during the Great Depression, by organizing, protesting and 
disrupting the system until the ruling elites are forced to grant a 
measure of social and economic justice. The Bonus Army, World War I 
veterans who had been denied pension payments, set up huge encampments 
in Washington, which were violently dispersed by the army. Neighborhood 
groups, many of them members of the Wobblies or the Communist Party, in 
the 1930s physically prevented sheriff departments from evicting 
families. In 1936 and 1937, the United Auto Workers union carried out a 
sit-down strike inside factories that crippled General Motors, forcing 
the company to recognize the union, raise wages and meet union demands 
for job protection and safe working conditions. It was one of the most 
important labor victories in American history and led to the entire 
automobile industry in the United States becoming unionized. Farmers, 
forced into bankruptcy and foreclosures by the big banks and Wall 
Street, founded the Farmer’s Holiday Association to protest the seizure 
of family farms, one of the reasons bank robbers such as John Dillinger, 
Bonnie and Clyde and the Barker Gang were folk heroes. The farmers 
blocked roads and destroyed mountains of farm products, reducing supply 
and raising prices. The farmers, like unionized auto workers, endured 
widespread government surveillance and violent attacks from the FBI, 
company goons, hired gun thugs, militias and sheriff’s departments. But 
the militancy worked. The farmers forced the state to accept a de facto 
moratorium on farm foreclosures. Mass demonstrations outside state 
capitals at the same time pressured state legislatures to block the 
collection of overdue mortgage payments. Tenant farmers and 
sharecroppers in the south unionized. The Department of Labor called 
their collective action a “miniature civil war.” The unemployed and the 
hungry throughout the country squatted in vacant homes and on vacant 
land forming shantytowns that were known as Hoovervilles. The destitute 
took over public buildings and public utilities. This constant pressure, 
not the good will of FDR, created the New Deal. He and his fellow 
oligarchs eventually understood 
<https://lithub.com/howard-zinn-how-fdr-forestalled-a-second-american-revolution/> 
that if there was not reform there would be revolution, something 
Roosevelt acknowledged in his private correspondence.

It is not until people are reintegrated into the society, not until 
corporate and oligarchic control over our educational, political and 
media systems are removed, not until we recover the ethic of the common 
good, that we have any hope of rebuilding the positive social bonds that 
foster a healthy society. History has amply illustrated how this process 
works. It is a game of fear. And until we make them afraid, until a 
terrified Joe Biden and the oligarchs he serves look out on a sea of 
pitchforks, we will not blunt the culture of sadism they have engineered.

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