Blackcap Blog

Published at 13:36 on 18 April 2025

Just stop with all the fantasies of accountability to come.

Just stop talking about trials in The Hague for the disappearances to El Salvador. Just stop talking about impeachment. ‘Cuz it ain’t gonna happen.

We’ve seen this before. No one save for a relatively few nobodies got prosecuted for what happened on 6 January 2021. And those nobodies have now all been fully pardoned.

Only a few nobodies got prosecuted for what happened at Abu Ghraib, for that matter. Nobody got held accountable for lying the USA’s way into the Iraq war, even when the liars resorted to illegal retaliation like revealing the role of Joseph Wilson’s wife as a secret CIA agent.

While we’re on the subject of lying one’s way into wars, nobody got held accountable for lying the USA into the Vietnam War or lying the USA into expanding that war into Cambodia (an act directly responsible for creating the power vacuum that the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime soon filled), either.

It’s pretty damn obvious why someone like Trump eventually showed up on the scene. Decades, and I mean decades, of US history point to a precedent of a president being able to do, well, basically whatever the hell he wants to do. And get away with it. The Supreme Court merely made de jure what anyone with a brain could see was already de facto.

So please, liberals, stop it. Even if you manage to pull a rabbit out of a hat and defeat Trump electorally in the next few cycles, in the big picture, it won’t change a damn thing. Nobody will get more than the lightest of slaps on the wrist, the Right will come roaring back yet again, and the next time will make this time look like they were just pussyfooting around.

Yeah, yeah, sure Lucy. This time the Democratic Party establishment won’t pull the football away. Just stop it.

And stop talking it being the Right as the ones who have trouble acknowledging reality. Their belief that their Führer can do whatever he wants and get away with it is, unlike your fairy tales of accountability coming from within the system, actually a plausible belief.

Unless…

Unless, that is, you get realistic.

Unless you open your eyes and see the Democratic Party and Establishment liberalism for what they actually are: not as any sort of actual opposition to the USA going fascist, but as willing co-participants in the process.

I don’t mean all liberals (or all Democrats) here. Many are in fact sincere in being revolted by fascism. I hope the liberals reading this are.

But I am not talking about individual beliefs; I am talking about the role of Establishment liberalism and the Democrats overall, in general. And that role has (again, overall and in general) been the role of willing co-participant.

I am sorry if this conclusion stings, but it is really the only logical one in light of amply demonstrated historical facts.

We need to acknowledge that the Democrats are not going to do jack shit about the fascist trend in the USA, unless there is some serious pressure from below. Alternate, non Democratic Party-affiliated, grassroots organizing needs to be done, with the aim of rendering the country ungovernable unless accountability happens.

Maybe even some pressure that plans to impose its own form of independent, non-governmentally-sanctioned accountability on the fascists. Because maybe that’s the sort of threat it will take for official accountability to happen.

And if you doubt this, I suggest you need to read more about labour activism and how workers got greater rights in the USA in the early 20th century (clue: it wasn’t entirely peaceful and law-abiding).

And if you don’t want to do such organizing, well, you don’t have to and I can’t make you.

Just shut up and cut the crap about accountability. Because, if so, it ain’t coming.