This week, on May 30, yet another lifetime staffer resigned from the Biden administration. This time it was Stacy Gilbert, an employee of the U.S. State Department, which directs Washington’s imperial foreign policy. Gilbert is one of two dozen or so members of Biden’s government staff to resign over the regime’s handling of the zionist attacks on the Palestinian people. Another official, Alexander Smith, who works for USAID, was given a choice between resigning or being dismissed after he prepared a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians.
Gilbert announced her exit from the State Department by email. She explained that she was leaving because the administration lied and continues to lie in its official findings about whether zionists are deliberately obstructing the flow of food and aid into Gaza. The regime’s control over its personnel and the narrative is slipping drastically. Not only is the public no longer convinced, but even the regime’s own stalwarts have rejected its narrative. Josh Paul, the first official to resign from the government, warned that “[T]here are other resignations pending in the near future from officials with similar concerns in their own areas of work.”
USAID is often used as a cover for the most cynical and depraved U.S. spycraft. The State Department carries the sword and shield of U.S. imperial foreign policy all over the world. For members of these departments and agencies to publicly throw up their hands and depart from their own government over the degree of hypocrisy now being exhibited by the bloodthirsty war planners and politicos in Washington is a high-water mark for the weakness of the current administration.
Biden’s support among fellow Democrats and the public has collapsed. We warned earlier this year that the Democrats were so afraid of public opinion that they would attempt to crown Biden in a fait accomplis ceremony at the DNC Convention. They have lived down to our expectations: the Democrats are not even going to nominate him at the convention. They’ll do it by zoom call, beforehand. The official justification the DNC is giving is that, if they don’t nominate their candidates prior to Ohio’s August 7 ballot deadline, he won’t appear on the Ohio presidential ballot. We can speculate about their real reasons. Perhaps they want to forestall massive protests in Chicago and a potential outbreak of violence when the people, long lied to about the weight their voice carries in politics, make themselves heard.
When the zionist genocide began, the White House was dragged along with it. Today, we can no longer say that is the case. Biden himself is personally culpable, not only as a passive bystander, but as an active architect. As this becomes more and more clear to more and more people, all but the cruelest and most heartless of political hacks must abandon him. This isn’t international political inertia — it’s the forging of a new, even more right-wing Democratic Party. From all evidence, the Biden clique’s plan is to out-fascist the right.
We must do more than sit and wait to watch the fireworks of public opinion when the Biden clique seizes the nomination this summer. We must be prepared for Chicago; the voice of the people, muzzled for so long, must sound in the halls of privilege.
Onward, to revolution!
