Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
– John Adams
I must admit I was surprised by the ease with which Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential race. I was expecting it to be much tighter. Some are saying it was a landslide win.
I’m sure even the Republicans are surprised. It’s been 20 years since they took both the Electoral College and the popular vote. Back then, it was George W. Bush who trumped John Kerry. The electorate was deeply divided, and that’s how it’s been since.
As an outside observer who despised both leading candidates for reasons I disclosed in a previous post, my surprise is confined only to how easy it was for Trump to win. I’m not surprised that he won. It was probably inevitable.
The Democratic Party spent the last year mainly ignoring the popular will of their liberal voter base. In recent weeks, just before the elections, they scorned citizens in a critical battleground state, North Carolina, who were affected by natural disasters while continuing to lavish attention on funding an expansion of wars in the Middle East. They both wholly ignored students protesting against the genocide in Gaza, and they even attempted to violently quash civil protest action.
They trumped all that by ignoring pleas from the Michigan Muslim expatriate community, a pivotal voting bloc, to intervene in the Gaza genocide by enforcing a ceasefire. Then, they sunk even lower by blatantly lying about negotiating a ceasefire for months.
Now, I’ve been listening to some of the post-election analysis, which is a euphemism for blame-shifting and finger-pointing. If they’re to be believed, Trump won because Americans were fed up with the sagging economy. We are being led to believe that Americans willingly chose Trump’s promise of fascism over the high price of eggs.
The hard truth is that the election result is not so much a Trump victory as a spectacular feat of stupidity through their myopic commitment to imperialist values by the Democratic Party, resulting in them engineering their own demise. One independent journalist observed that Trump was handed a win on a plate.
It’s not all doom and gloom, however…
Fuck it! Who am I kidding? It is! For everybody, even the gullible gits who voted for Trump, and they don’t even know it yet.
For me personally, there is an upside. It’s the end of the road for America’s Secretary of Genocide State, Antony Blinkin, and also US spokespersons like John Kirby, Jake Sullivan, and Karine Jean-Pierre, but mainly the smirking Mathew Miller (Count Smirkula) and the oafish Vedant Patel. I will also be elated when America’s black faces of imperialism at the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield and Richard M. Mills, tender their resignations.
I won’t have to listen to their hypocrisy and lies any longer. Good riddance. May they fade into ignominy until they are tried for war crimes. As for Joe Biden, he’ll have to live with the memory and stigma of being an instrumental enabler of the greatest crime of the century thus far.
Is there a future for the Democratic Party?
Of course, there is. However, things must change to remain relevant to young people. I wonder if Kamala Harris still has an appetite for politics after this humiliation. The old guard, however, will have to go; Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and others must retire in sympathetic ignominy with Biden, to enjoy their ill-gotten wealth and privilege, leaving politics to the younger set.
On the other hand, up-and-coming young star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is proof that even younger members are corruptible. The fact that she lied on stage at the DNC that Democrats were working tirelessly for a ceasefire is proof of that. Others, like Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, seem to be more principled.
But this is politics. Principles don’t have a long shelf life here.
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