U.S. Presidential Election, November 5
Only the Working Class and People Will Create the Kind of Change the People Want
The central issue in the U.S. presidential election which will take place in less than a week is that no matter which candidate wins the most electoral college votes, they will not bring in the kind of change the people want. Whoever wins, the U.S. working class and people will persist in waging their fight for the rights of all, at home and abroad. Even as the campaign winds down, they continue to oppose genocide, in Gaza and Lebanon and continue making their claims on society. Militant demonstrations will take place on November 2 in many cities raising the call: No Votes for Genocide!
Whether
on campuses, workplaces, or communities people are stepping up their
organized resistance and developing a people's way forward to bring
about the change U.S. society and rule require. Debates, seminars,
tribunals and demonstrations are planned for the coming months to hold
government and
university officials accountable.
The frenzy to cover up that elections serve to block the change demanded is such that the last week of the campaign has become totally irrational. It involves the juxtaposition of the extreme violence and extreme racism promoted by Donald Trump with the desperate appeal of Kamala Harris for everyone to vote for her because she is not as extreme as Trump. It is tantamount to telling voters she is a better choice because she has killed fewer people than Trump, which is factually not even true given the genocide the Biden/Harris administration is responsible for in Gaza.
How many persons killed is okay to qualify for president, one is left to wonder. The fact that both candidates represent the worst killing machine ever known in the modern era is not up for discussion. Nor is the prospect that both will increase presidential police powers with their impunity and lack of accountability for war crimes and genocide at home and abroad. While the two candidates are portrayed as one standing for the Constitution and one wanting to smash it, in fact both stand for intensifying presidential powers to act above and against the law at home and abroad. Harris repeatedly calls to uphold the Constitution to defend democracy, while Trump calls to break any obstacles in the path of "Making America Great Again."
We are witnessing a frenzy to line people up behind Harris even if they oppose everything she stands for, to avert the danger of the extreme racism and violence which Trump is seen to represent, and does indeed represent. However, to think that the system Harris is part of and champions is not characterized by the very same extreme racism and violence, is not rational. It also counters the advanced stand taken by all those who stand firmly against genocide and all those responsible for it.
This is why unprecedented numbers of people will continue to reject the "choice" between one candidate and the other. Many are doing so because they reject the entire system which these candidates represent. It is clear to them that Harris, Trump, and the existing institutions stand against democracy, peace, and freedom.
History is calling on the peoples to march on to create a modern democracy of their own making. Conciliation with the rotten institutions called democratic, with the Constitution which was a compromise with slavery and oligopoly, against democracy and for wage and penal slavery, is not an option.
This is the central issue in this election.
This article was published in
Friday, November 1, 2024
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