US elites are so blind to their countries ills that a contest between the obnoxious, ridiculous, fascistic Trump and the doddering imbecile Biden for the presidency of the United States of America seems almost normal to them. It should not. Trump is a career criminal, a racist and a degenerate. He's a travesty of a human being. Biden, meanwhile, is a half-wit, pathological liar (so is Trump!) authoritarian errand-boy for big finance. He's in love with the sound of his voice and doesn't understand that most of what he says is garbage.
Biden helped to build the system of militarized, racist police and of racist mass incarceration during his long career in the Senate. Biden helped to build the structure of permanent austerity for the majority and forever bail-outs for the oligarchy. Biden helped to build the shitty USA that made Trump's Electoral College victory possible.
And for the second time, the Democratic National Committee stole the primaries from Bernie Sanders to give it to a corporate/imperialist stooge, seemingly more worried about a social democrat winning than a nascent fascist.
This is insanity ladies and gentlemen. And it's only going to get more pathetic as these two human abominations begin to "debate" each other. We won't have to imagine it much longer. Soon those two shit-heads will be on the stage babbling incoherent inanities at each other. Neither capable (or desirous) of articulating a positive way forward for the US-American people.
But what of the US-American people? Half of the electorate doesn't vote. They correctly see that the political system has nothing to offer them except which flavour of shit sandwich will poison them. It's entirely possible that there will be TENS OF MILLION of evictions as a result of BOTH PARTIES' corrupt, callous response to the pandemic. Millions will be unemployed, destitute, with no access to health care during a pandemic.
Meanwhile, Blacks and Latinos are right now (with millions of White allies) in open rebellion against the racist injustice system of the USA. And, in response (and in defense of their racist injustice system) Trump's fascist, shit-head supporters are armed and in the streets against them. The US military (and former servicemen) are a wild-card. Traditionally right-wing, they have turned against both parties. They turned to Trump in 2016 because he made noises about ending the destructive forever wars that liberal imperialists like Obama and Clinton were perpetuating in bipartisan agreement with Bush and Cheney. But Trump really hasn't ended those wars and he's insulted the military on numerous occasions. Minority current and former servicemen are also enraged at the racist injustice system that Trump celebrates (and that Biden created).
Trump is openly sabotaging the US Postal Service and, thereby, the upcoming election, when many people would like to vote by mail due to the pandemic. Greg Palast has already documented how Trump is getting ready to steal the election through other tactics. Trump is openly sewing the seeds of doubt in the integrity of the upcoming election. This is easy to do because US elections are already anti-democratic shams, run by shameless partisan hacks.
So much filth and stupidity has become normalized in that country. But the overwhelmingly appalling state of the Union has destroyed any possibility of a normal response to a normal political outcome. There are Republicans and Democrats who will be at each others' throats regardless of who wins. And there will be an equal number of non-partisan citizens who have been pushed to the wall. I predict a violent, COVID-19 raging November.
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Yes, it is far from a pretty picture. Of course, I'm very much anti-militaristic, but Trump's insults to the poor sods who got killed for the robber barons might piss off quite a few veterans.
Black Lives Matter and Indigenous peoples' movements do provide some hope but not enough.
lagatta,
Half the population still doesn't vote. Of the half that does vote, a large proportion of their activists got robbed in the primary and if they hold their noses and vote for the corporate tool who stole the primary, the Repugnicans might throw their votes out anyway.
The media (as usual) does a piss-poor job of describing how this "conflict" is between decent people angry at the police brutalising and murdering fellow citizens with impunity and going out into the streets to protest against it, while the other side are fascists, racists, hypocrites, ignoramuses, shit-heads.
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