From the
Party Press on the Significance of 2016
U.S. Presidential
Election Results The End of "Business as Usual"
November
9, 2016. High school students in Berkeley, California hold walkout to
protest
Trump's election. The
following article was published by TML Weekly
on November 12, 2016 following the election of Donald Trump to
the presidency of the United States. It shows what TML
predicted would take place under his rule.
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) considers
that the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United
States will represent the rule of the oligopolies through unfettered
police powers. His election has plunged both the peoples of the U.S.
and the peoples of the world into an even more dangerous situation.
 On November 4, on the eve of
the U.S. presidential election that took place on November 8, CPC(M-L)
wrote the following:
"... the campaign has revealed
the extent to which the U.S. state and system of governance operate
through corruption and coercion as well as how people are deprived of
political power." CPC(M-L) noted that how the people are deprived of
political power is "the other very important aspect of the state power
in the hands of the financial oligarchy. The ruling imperialist elite
achieve this by depriving the people of an outlook, a way to look at
the world and the problems that have arisen so that they can be calmly
sorted out and provided with solutions." The same
applies to the verdicts on the election results. Everything is being
done "to deprive the people of an outlook, a way to look at the world
and the problems that have arisen so that they can be calmly sorted out
and provided with solutions." What are the verdicts
being pushed? From the side of the Clinton campaign, the verdict is
that the result is the apocalypse, and the values and vision of Clinton
remain all that stand between "you and the apocalypse" as she said
during the campaign. From the side of the Trump campaign comes the
explanation that he led "a movement" which is anti-establishment, wants
the problems of the economy dealt with and an end to "all the
bullshit." From both sides comes the agreement that now that the
election is over, everyone's duty is to abide by the Constitution,
ensure the transition of power is peaceful and unite America.
Clinton Concedes Nothing While Trump Sets Forth to
"Make America Great Again"  In Hillary
Clinton's concession speech, besides the presidency itself, she
conceded nothing, not even her defeat. Far from it, despite the fact
that Clinton failed to unite America behind her vision and values, she
said that going forward it is this shared vision and values which she
will continue to push and she calls on her supporters to do likewise.
This vision uses aggression and war as negotiation, blames the U.S.
economic decline on China and maintains Russia as the main enemy of the
United States. It was captured in her slogan that the U.S. is the
"indispensable nation," which, of course, makes all others dispensable.
It was expressed by Clinton in 2008 when she said the U.S. could
"totally obliterate" Iran, and in 2011 when she greeted the
assassination of the leader of Libya with the phrase "We came, we saw,
he died."
In his victory speech, Trump made sure to
mention the large number of generals who support him, as well as the
National Rifle Association and New York City Mayor during 9/11, Rudolph
Giuliani and others who stand for the unfettered police powers Trump
thinks are necessary to "Make America Great Again." The central points
of his campaign were basically that the U.S. system is broken or
rigged, that the U.S. has been weakened on the world stage and that
only a man of Trump's force of personality is capable of putting things
right. His strategy is to be "engaged" and says the art lies in how you
make the deal. In his victory speech he said, "I've spent my entire
life in business, looking at the untapped potential in projects and in
people all over the world" and "That is now what I want to do for our
country." Blame the State, Not the People, for
Racism, Sexism and Anti-Working Class Attacks and Outlook Following
the election, the section of media and those pundits, commentators and
celebrities in the U.S. and abroad who believe themselves to be
progressive and civilized are filled with the kind of racist, sexist
and anti-worker stereotypes which they ascribe to Trump. According to
them, the U.S. is divided between educated people and uneducated people
and the "white working class" is to be blamed for the defeat of Clinton
in the election. According to their stereotype, the American working
class is basically everyone without a college education and the "white
working class" is racist, sexist, white supremacist, xenophobic,
backward, uneducated and uncivilized. Human beings are treated as
"things," not people.  Everything is
done to hide that it is the U.S. state which is anti-worker, sexist and
racist and anti-immigrant as well as profoundly anti-communist, which
is why in the rendering of the election results, the defeat of Clinton
is blamed on the working class.
Meanwhile, every
state-organized and spontaneous white supremacist formation and
unhinged individual and psychopath is given a green light to attack the
targets of their personal hatred and psychotic nightmares. This is due
to the boorish and inflammatory reality TV rhetoric on the basis of
which Trump ran his election campaign, but also its ceaseless promotion
by U.S. media, and especially the Clinton campaign. The Clinton
campaign spent twice as much money as Trump to make Trump the issue for
the American people during the election. It is the Clinton media and
entourage which now use every epithet in the book to portray the
working people of the United States who voted for Trump as rabid,
crazed zealots who are trampling the rights of the people in the mud.
It does not behoove those who devote all their energies to
fighting for the rights of all to fall victim to this official
propaganda which treats people as categories of "things" and divides
them on that basis. All Out to Support the
American Working Class and People Fighting for Empowerment and the
Rights of All  CPC(M-L)
denounces the attacks against the people which have taken place since
the election, both those which are spontaneous and the ones organized
by a crisis-ridden state which has now given itself a green light to
govern through unfettered police powers. Police powers do not recognize
members of a body politic made up of a civil society with a government
of laws. Police powers do not recognize rights by virtue of one's
membership in that body politic, let alone rights by virtue of being
human. Police powers only recognize categories of "things" slated for
some form of punishment. In scenarios which have been unfolding in the
U.S. for some time, people are portrayed as "thugs," "protestors,"
"trouble-makers," "enemy aliens," "blacks," "Latinos," "Hispanics,"
"Muslims," "terrorists," "deviants" and other categories designed to
dehumanize them and target them for attack.
CPC(M-L)
takes this occasion to profoundly sympathize with all those in the
United States who are targets of the racist, anti-worker and
anti-people attacks and are waging valiant protests and acts of
resistance proclaiming loudly that this is not their democracy, Trump
is not their President and that attacks against the people are "Not In
My Name."
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 42 - November 1, 2020
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