Letters to the Editor
On TML Coverage of U.S. Presidential Election
March in New York City, November 9, 2024, days after the U.S. election
Excellent coverage of the U.S. elections, especially on the reasons people abstained or voted against Kamala Harris. Notably, this election was a profound refutation of the Obama-era explanation of elections according to voting blocs, the "Black vote," "Hispanic vote," "LGBTQ2S+ vote," "youth vote," etc. The people, across these "blocs," and regardless of how they decided to do it, acted according to their conscience and with a tremendous dissatisfaction with the status quo. This has left many Democratic pundits, political strategists and analysts stunned because their worldview of various blocs who oppose one another has fallen apart. Whatever the people decided, they proved that they believe the future belongs to a modern society where discussion takes place based on experience, views and interests, not by being grouped into a box based on one's innate characteristics.
What is striking is that the biggest correlation with refusing to vote for Kamala Harris across all "blocs" was income -- with those making under $50,000 a year less likely to vote for Harris, and those making more than $150,000 substantially more likely to vote for Harris, according to various news agencies' exit polls. In other words, those most affected by the present socio-economic crisis were more likely to vote against Harris, regardless of race, gender or other characteristics. This also disproves the fraud that one party is of the workers and the other is of the rich, when they are both known to represent the rich and all they stand for, including increasing impoverishment and wars of aggression.
Another crucial point is that many people who voted for Donald Trump, and are now being demonized, did not do so because they are "backwards" and "uneducated." They did so because he claimed he would stop the proxy war in the Ukraine, avert a Third World War, deliver peace to the Middle East, lower inflation, bring jobs, etc. In essence, they want stability in their society and the world. Whether or not he will do these things is not the point. The point is that these issues are matters of concern to the people. And they will find out through experience whether President-elect Trump, beholden to the increasingly decaying U.S. system of narrow private interests, will do them.
A particularly strong and admirable stand was taken and is being taken by the Muslim and Arab Americans of Michigan and elsewhere, who refused to vote for the genocide of their peoples. On the campaign trail, Kamala Harris angrily told them: "If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I am speaking." In response, on November 6, Muslim and Arab Americans held a press conference in Dearborn with signs stating, "We are speaking," "Michigan Arabs and Muslims are now speaking" and "We are committed to peace, justice and dignity for all." An historical lesson as to the fate of anyone who stands for genocide and war. The brave Arabs and Muslims of the United States will certainly continue to fight for the rights of the Palestinians, Lebanese and others, and the end to the genocide under any circumstance.
Dearborn, Michigan, November 2, 2024
The people of the United States will continue to organize for change during Trump's second term. The stability and the secure future they desire can only be guaranteed when the people themselves exercise decision-making power, not through outmoded and outdated political processes which serve to legitimize one clique or the other at the head of the ruling class. The solution they will work out will necessarily lead to the balanced, proportionate development of the economy and society according to the maximum satisfaction of the people, the opposite of the present-day anarchy and civil war conditions ripping apart the old society.
A Reader in Niagara
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
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