Part of what makes social media an infuriating place for the average communist/leftist is the amount of rampant propaganda that assaults our collective ego from both Nazis and the liberals who allow their nonsense to continue unabated. To wit, we have had liberals defending the “right” of Nazis to speak in public about mass genocide, the inferiority of black people, and their unabashed support of President Trump’s egomaniacal agenda. Nevermind that free speech under liberalism has its limits, that’s a different article entirely. We are seeing a disturbing amount of investment in blaming others for the failures that Democrats incurred on themselves both in the primaries and the general election that followed in November. One of the most dangerous recurring narratives used to deflect from the rot of the Democratic Party in our current popular discourse is the so-called “connections” between our most recent oligarch and the Russian Federation (NOT the USSR).

The story goes a little like this: back when the DNC was hacked and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chair John Podesta’s emails were leaked to the public, some liberal outlets alleged that the source of the hacks came from overseas, namely our political rival in the Putin administration. Democrats and their allied pundits in the media then used this allegation to double down and claim that there was “Russian interference” to produce a Trump win, despite many factors that show precisely why and how Trump sleazed his way to the White House, among them free media time, relentless attacks on institutional respectability, voter suppression, etc. Of course, no definitive, credible evidence has been produced by those alleging Russian involvement in our electoral process, and anyone with an ounce of common sense should be skeptical of these claims until they can be verified. Now that one of Trump’s National Security Advisers, Michael Flynn, has resigned from his post, mainstream outlets are using the latest idiocy of the Trump administration to point toward more conspiracy. That the Democrats should cry foul for election rigging when the United States has historically “intervened” in the elections of other countries for decades is a laughingstock at the least, and a moral indignation for those citizens who were denied a fair election because of our imperialist crimes.

But why does the recent outpouring of Neo-McCarthyist Russophobia (for it is really nothing else to suggest that Putin is equivalent to Russia as a people, culture and geopolitics) and questionable journalistic integrity matter when considering how to curb the worst tendencies of the Trump administration? Should we, that is to say the Left, not put this nonsense aside and at least focus on collaboration with liberals to tackle the Republican conquest of Congress? I’m afraid that the reality of “resistance” is more complicated and much more difficult than liberals with their safety pins, blame-gaming and focus on Trump’s insane offensive rhetoric would have you believe. Trump is a logical end result of the system that the United States was built on. He is not an anomaly, but a continuation of that same system that was built on stolen land atop the backs of stolen people. If we indulge in State propaganda rather than indicting the White capitalist nature of the Amerikkkan empire, then whatever resistance we hope to build in order to aid the oppressed, the most marginalized under empire, will fail utterly. Myth-making and propaganda are vital parts of how the United States has come to continue its political project despite war, famine and division over the question of chattel slavery. Thus, at every turn, it is the onus of every communist, leftist and progressive to deny the power of the State in lying to its people. Indict whiteness. Indict the rich. Indict not only Trump, but the State and all its power structures that he represents.