J’Accuse of November 5 on the controversial and illusory American elections: America between crisis, disillusionment and the need for profound reforms- Victory of Trump

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It is certainly not the America of the so-called "American Dream" that is before our eyes today, but it is an America divided and divisive between internal conflicts and international wars (Ukraine and the Middle East, where American taxpayers' money is given to Ukrainians and Israelis in spades, in the name and on behalf of public finances to maintain a world order that is crumbling precisely because the current President Biden and his predecessors have not governed the crises nor tried to find appropriate solutions to resolve or channel conflicts if inequalities in the world. A superpower like the USA cannot ignore what its limits are and the serious consequences towards which it is leading the entire world due to policies and wars financed with hundreds of billions of dollars, increasing American debt to the advantage of the war industries and the powerful lobbies that govern the planet. We often wonder about the role of American diplomacy in the war in Ukraine. Since the outbreak of the conflict, Biden has chosen not to negotiate. Why? Why has the America of the “American Democrats” not understood that the “Ukrainian backyard” is not essential for the maintenance of American power and even less for the strengthening of the European Union? Evidently the shady plans behind the enlargement (NATO and EU), never declared clearly and sincerely, aimed at the annihilation and weakening of the Russian enemy. This objective has not succeeded, although it has been said and repeated since the beginning, that Russia and its regime would collapse a few months after the outbreak of the war. Everyone was gagged not to criticize this line and anyone who dared to disagree would be accused of treason. This line of censorship and isolation against dissidents, still assumed in the conflict, says a lot about the undemocratic matrix of its conduct. But it is and remains a great failure of American foreign policy of which Harris today presents herself, for the Democrats, as the continuator. The line of all-out war against Russia is an imperative for the Democratic-led establishment, perhaps because they like to play with the lives of others, or worse still, it will be a way to test their weapons and enrich the powerful lobby of the American war industry that, with each visit of Zelensky to Washington, finds itself with a pile of military contracts and orders in favor of Kiev. Joking about this topic, in a statement by their Republican rival Trump said textually: "that no one like Zelensky has ever enjoyed so much generosity from American public finances." And he is completely right. The fundamental problem for finding a solution to the conflict that opposes Russia and the Americans and Europeans is the reopening of negotiations and the achievement of a lasting agreement on security and peace in Europe, something that the Democrats want to achieve only with war. But they have not succeeded so far and will never succeed. The compromises and silence on the genocide in Gaza is another aspect of the failure of America and its foreign policy in the Middle East. The most serious thing is that democratic America has not only provided weapons and protection to the Jewish state, but has even censored and repressed the popular and student movements that protested against the genocide and the failure to reach a ceasefire. What can we say in the face of these aberrations of American democracy? Are they the exception or the rule? Which candidate for the presidency of the United States speaks clearly about them? It is clear that American elections are won on a myriad of issues. First and foremost the fight against illegal immigration, abortion, the performance of the economy and the lowering of the tax burden, but also on an issue dear to the Republicans, namely the protection of the American economy from unfair competition from European and Far Eastern products. Economic liberalism does not work when it impoverishes local producers. It is seen as a mortal enemy. The Democrats have not yet understood this, because they are tied to the financial and banking powers that govern the planet and not to that world of farmers and small industrialists of deep America. They are the most important base that supports the tycoon, but the America that governs is not only an expression of the popular vote but is also a compromise with the lobbies that influence elected presidents. You understand this when you go to the White House and when you face crises such as the genocide in Gaza or the management of the war of attrition against Russia. In the end, a president always has his hands tied, under penalty of his assassination or his impeachment by the American Congress. But today's America needs profound reforms and changes to continue to govern the world. I would say in one word: to return to being democratic, egalitarian and open to all. The fact that its institutions are in the hands of undemocratic lobbies and representative of American interests objectively qualifies it as a "pseudo-democracy". The same voting system that elects the American president should be modified with its unequal attributions of votes to the Confederate States, the so-called "Grand Electors" who compete in the election of the president. It should be replaced, in my opinion, with a proportional voting system which would give every citizen the right to compete in the choice of the president on a strictly proportional basis. In any case, we have witnessed in the last American presidential elections that presidents who had the most votes, lost because the system of votes attributed to the states proved to be unfair. (Clinton/Trump and Bush/Al Gore cases) But a divided America as it presents itself today is not capable of making the reforms required. Poverty is rampant in the country, as is the increase in insecurity and inter-ethnic conflicts, the increase in public spending and the dismantling of the little welfare state that has been achieved so far, are internal signals that should not be underestimated. A civil war could break out again between states and between the different ethnic groups and conflicting interests that characterize the country. The "ideal" and non-electoral choice, alas, would not be between Harris and Trump, but between either the return to the lustre of the dream of freedom and democracy that has characterized the history of the country or the madness and incivility that we have witnessed so far in American theaters, both internally and internationally. The two candidates represent conflicting interests, but always convergent when it comes to defend Israel, Ukrainians or Taiwan and not human rights and international law that must be the bulwark of American democracy. In this American chaos it is necessary to build and promote a multilateral world so that America can find its senses after so much intoxication with power and oppression.