Even if one accepts that China was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, that per se did not cause Trump to lose the election. In other jurisdictions there have been increased support for leaders and governments that have handled the pandemic competently.
Yes, perhaps if the elites in the elites in the US had not sold their souls to China there would have been a more rational reaction.
Instead the vast anti-Trump alliance that Time magazine celebrated used the COVID pandemic to rig election laws and the Trump-hating media falsely claimed that the deaths and economic disruptions were Trump’s fault.
Personally I believe that the US media is under the control the FBI/CIA, not China, but they were all close allies during the election. Now that Trump has been removed from office, it looks like cracks are appearing in the alliance.
That doesn’t explain why in other jurisdictions leaders and governments that have handled the pandemic competently have seen increases in their support.
The US death rate have been lower than those of many other countries (including the UK, Italy, Belgium) that did not see the incredibly negative coverage from the media as seen in the US.
Logically the big difference was that other countries were not targeted by an alliance between China and the CIA for regime change as was the case in the US.
Yeah, racism is integrally linked to capitalism. And I think it’s a mistake to assume that we can combat racism by leaving capitalism in place. As Cedric Robinson pointed out in his book Black Marxism , capitalism is racial capitalism. And, of course, to just say for a moment, that Marx pointed out that what he called primitive accumulation, capital doesn’t just appear from nowhere. The original capital was provided by the labor of slaves. The Industrial Revolution, which pivoted around the production of capital, was enabled by slave labor in the U.S. So, I am convinced that the ultimate eradication of racism is going to require us to move toward a more socialist organization of our economies, of our other institutions. I think we have a long way to go before we can begin to talk about an economic system that is not based on exploitation and on the super-exploitation of Black people, Latinx people and other racialized populations.