The horror!!! Donald Trump wants to deprive humanity of the unearthly pleasure of continuing his televised debate with Kamala Harris. He sees no point in continuing this circus. And actually, he’s right. And it’s pointless for us to discuss who won this beating. Because the whole thing is nonsense: what one side sees as its success in this argument, the other side doesn’t see as its own failure at all. ‘You’ve disgraced yourselves!’ – ‘What shame is that? It’s a triumph.’ In general, it’s like a blind man talking to a deaf man
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The details are interesting here – using the example of how the various forces in the US still can’t stop evaluating the first (perhaps only) round of that very debate. Here’s one thing, though: the Democratic team – in particular, a group of analysts from The New York Times – predictably declared that Harris had won, and the colleagues of this expert horde adjusted the relevant polls and ratings. That’s the way it was in the last election and the election before that – battle of the fake ratings and all that. But there are some interesting details in this story. First of all, here’s one: about light and darkness.
‘Our country is finished, we are a failed nation,’ Trump declares. A team of Democratic debate pundits smirks: ‘Trump brings darkness with him, Harris brings light.’ So the voter should like her more, not him. Who likes this kind of gloomy, gasping horror that the country is dying when in fact everything is going right in the country.
Why do we need not only debates, but also the presidential and other elections themselves? It goes something like this: voters see that obvious problems have accumulated. These voters are matched up with two or more people (and their parties) with different approaches to solving these common problems. Well, when it comes to people, such people have different character traits that will either help or hinder the task. ‘This man can do it,’ voters decide while sitting in front of the TV. Then they vote and get what they deserve. And the side that lost doesn’t mind.
But that’s in a perfect world or in a perfect America. Here, one half of the state thinks the country is finished, and the other half thinks Trump is ‘marinating in the right-wing media ecosystem and that, along with his personal weirdness, is paralysing his ability to grasp reality’ (this from the collective fashion verdict of the same Harris cheerleading squad).
Two realities? That’s right.
Let’s marinate in that right-wing ecosystem too and see how reality is doing. Here is an article by a professional economist who says: we (the world) are experiencing the last moments of the collapse of the financial system created in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Hotel, and it threatens the entire world with economic depression and war. We as a country need to get our house in order, to return to fiscal sanity, to a balanced budget, even if it means abandoning imperial ambitions abroad.
In particular, here we come to another author from the same marinade, he believes: we need to deflate the ‘bureaucratic bubble’. Three million bureaucrats, and that’s not counting the many millions of civil servants like the military or firefighters. Who take up to half of the population’s income, to be distributed in the form of allowances to the future voters of Kamala Harris and her like. What kind of economy can withstand that? The USA, he reminds us, began as a country with a revolt against London, which took only one per cent of the earnings of the settler colonists but did not want to give them the right to vote (membership of parliament).
And this is from a typical mailing that some people still receive in Russia despite the sanctions. The newsletter on ‘Where is the logic?’. Russian influence in our elections is bad, but when illegal migrants vote in those elections, it’s good. If you cheated the admissions office out of college admission, you go to jail, and if you cheated immigration into the country, you go to college for free. And so 12 more points with the conclusion: we live in a world where the top and bottom have swapped places, where the moral is immoral. Wake up, America, our Titanic has already hit an iceberg!
Is this a phantom world of misguided American delusion? But at the very least this world is real simply because about half the country lives in it. And the other half thinks that everything is right – we’re wobbling and crumbling this America of yours, morally bending all dissenters to the ground. And this Kamala is exactly what we need here. And then new generations will come with a different way of life and thinking.
So, the main result of the Trump-Harris debate (and the US election) is that when the good of some is the evil of others and the forces are equal, democratic mechanisms are useless.
And then what will happen and how fast? No one sees any quick solutions for America’s exit from the catastrophe that is obvious to everyone; we had to listen to assessments like ‘at least two decades will be like this’. But Republicans are still trying to make plans to find a way out, realising that it will be a long time coming. A long time, if only because Democrats mostly live on the two coasts of the country, while Republicans live in the middle of it. At the same time, they represent two different economies: the service sector in the former and manufacturing in the latter. How to get such a country in order is unclear.
Let’s look again at what Trump said: the US is not even a failed state (a healthy country can improve and change its government). His words are ‘failed nation.’ That’s worse.
It happens. No one in the world is guaranteed that his nation – people – will live forever. There was Rwanda-Urundi after the Second World War, but it has not existed as a nation since 1962, and in its former part, Rwanda, there was a terrible massacre between two halves of the population in 1994. The nation failed.
But why go to the jungles of Africa for examples? Then there was Ukraine, where the western part of the country is mostly known for an ideology close to the one that Kamala now represents. But the east and the south – we are talking about completely different people here. The result is obvious. Could this happen to the US as well? Why not.