The World Watches the U.S. State and U.S.-style Democracy Unravel
The reporting on the midterm elections is from the vantage point of the rich and their candidates. The only role given to the people is to get drawn into a debate about them and choose a camp - either the Trump camp to Make American Great Again (MAGA) or Biden’s “preserve the democracy.”
Some
of the reporting deals with the deteriorating conditions on
every front
in the U.S. but all of it is disinformation to deprive the
working
people of decision-making power over the issues that impact
their
lives. Issues such as the disastrous war economy, unsafe and
unacceptable working and
living conditions, vicious government racism and brutality
against
women, against Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples and those which
pertain
to war and genocide are kept outside their purview.
Biden's talk about democracy and preserving the constitutional order and Trump's talk about how to make America great again by trampling on the constitutional order and making sure rights have no standing whatsoever, hide two critical facts. One is that irrespective of which president has been in power, including Trump and Biden, the current U.S. government is a government of police powers, without regard for rule of law. Police powers are all the prerogative powers exercised by the President and his cabinet agencies, and executives in general, such as Governors.
There is presidential dictate that tramples on rule of law and is not concerned with legitimacy, as can readily be seen in the lawlessness exercised within the United States as well as against the peoples abroad, be it in Europe to wage war against Russia to the last Ukrainian and expand NATO control over the peoples of the continent, or against Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Palestine and other countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Drone
warfare and use of Special Forces is increasing now in Africa
with the
use of the military's AFRICOM, which is completely illegal and
against
the sovereignty of nations yet it has consistently been
broadened,
especially by Obama and every president since. Actions against
immigrants and
refugees, such as long-term detention of women and children, are
also
illegal but carry on. Racist police killings remain widespread.
The
rule is not of law, but of police powers characterized by
executive
dictate, impunity, and a complete lack of accountability.
The second thing not discussed is that Biden's first two years
in
office show the failure of his presidency to sort out any
problem and
in fact he draws the U.S. into deeper and deeper crises both at
home
and abroad. The world has watched as the U.S. state unravels.
U.S.-style democracy with its
striving for world hegemony and rule as "indispensable nation,"
dictating to one and all, is failing. This includes the failure
of the
electoral process itself and of elections to resolve conflicts
among
the rulers.
What is needed is to look at the midterm elections from the
vantage point of the peoples, in
the U.S. and abroad, which means looking at how best to advance
the battle in the U.S. for a
people's democracy, a democracy of the people's own making that
empowers them to govern
and decide all the affairs which affect their lives.
This article was published in
Volume 52 Number 44 - November 8, 2022
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmld2022/Articles/D520442.HTM
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