Naturally the Empire will not allow non establishment candidates to
take away their presidency. That basically means the election races
are between members of the two Establishment Parties, the Republican
Party and the Democratic Party(which good conservatives foolishly call
the Democrat Party). The problem is not the candidates. They have
become skilled at playing by the Empire's Rules. Given different
rules, they would most likely adjust and go forward espousing the
rhetoric approved by the new System. It's the basic System, our
nation's Foundation that is the problem. We are, at best, an Urban
population operating under a Constitution hammered out by an Oligarchy
consisting of White prosperous Landholders, men 21 years of age and
above, and men of great personal wealth. In other words, Rich
Farmers. While the Constitution has been flexible enough to accept
amendments, it has always been protective of the Establishment.
In fact, the Establishment is so protective that it violates its own
system of laws, enabling George Bush II to "win" over Al Gore, and for
Hillary Clinton to beat out Bernie Sanders in the primary, but to lose
against Donald Trump in the 2012 election. As the Empire moved from
rich farmers to rich industrialists and rich investors, it maintained
control through the appointments of conservative judges, up to and
including the Supreme Court. And that Supreme Court of the Empire, in
its wise and just wisdom, granted citizenship and voting rights to
Money.
While the Constitution allows one vote for each citizen, it now allows
corporations a vote, as well as allowing many votes to wealthy men
like Michael Bloomberg, who contends that he will put up a billion
dollars of his personal fortune to run for president. Michael is not
as crafty as is Donald Trump, who used his skill as a Reality Actor to
keep his name and face in the daily headlines.
But even if the world stood on its ear and a socialist were elected
president, the Empire would not change. It would isolate the
president and make certain that the American People never made that
sort of mistake again. Until people decide that the Capitalist System
is broken and no longer even pretends to support the needs of the
majority of Americans, we are stuck with these charades called
Elections.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/15/20, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2020/02/15/2020-election-deepens-crisis-of-democrats-republicans/
2020 election deepens crisis of Democrats, Republicans
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BY TERRY EVANS
Vol. 84/No. 7
February 24, 2020
U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO/ROLAND BALIK Dissatisfaction among working people
over declining wages, conditions, impact of rulers’ wars fuels crisis in
Democratic
and Republican parties. Above, remains of GI killed in Afghanistan
arrive at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, July 2, 2019. figure
Dissatisfaction among working people over declining wages, conditions,
impact of rulers’ wars fuels crisis in Democratic and Republican
parties. Above,
remains of GI killed in Afghanistan arrive at Dover Air Force Base,
Delaware, July 2, 2019.
U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO/ROLAND BALIK Dissatisfaction among working people
over declining wages, conditions, impact of rulers’ wars fuels crisis in
Democratic
and Republican parties. Above, remains of GI killed in Afghanistan
arrive at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, July 2, 2019. figure end
For decades working people in the U.S. have faced declining real wages
and worsening working conditions as the bosses have gone after them in
an effort
to defend their profit rates, creating a broad social crisis. This,
along with opposition to the capitalist rulers’ ongoing wars in the
Middle East and
elsewhere, has fueled widespread dissatisfaction with both the
Democratic and Republican parties, which have alternated presiding over
the decline.
The disdain for what workers face by elected officials and the massive
government bureaucracy drives a political crisis that wracks both of the
bosses’
two major parties. The crisis is most obvious among the Democrats today,
whose fights with each other flow from the fear that they won’t find a
2020 candidate
who can defeat the incumbent president.
Many workers are looking for a way to change these conditions.
Supporters of the Socialist Workers Party 2020 ticket for president and
vice president,
Alyson Kennedy and Malcolm Jarrett, find interest among workers in
discussing an action program to defend ourselves from the employers and
the government
that serves them.
In contrast, the capitalist candidates — from President Donald Trump to
Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and democratic socialist Bernie Sanders —
offer different
ways to defend, regulate and manage the capitalist system.
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL Remote Area Medical team visits Baltimore, Sept. 7,
2019, to provide health care for a fraction of the millions who are
unable to afford
health insurance. figure
Remote Area Medical team visits Baltimore, Sept. 7, 2019, to provide
health care for a fraction of the millions who are unable to afford
health insurance.
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL Remote Area Medical team visits Baltimore, Sept. 7,
2019, to provide health care for a fraction of the millions who are
unable to afford
health insurance. figure end
This broad discontent helped propel Trump to the presidency in 2016. He
presented himself as an “outsider” who would end the carnage working
people face
and take on the “swamp” in Washington. Today Trump talks less about the
carnage, laying claim to having reduced unemployment and creating “the
Great American
Comeback” as he runs for reelection.
His poll numbers are rising as he campaigns on a platform of “peace and
prosperity,” especially after the utter failure of the Democrats’
impeachment crusade
and the fiasco of their Iowa caucuses. He’s also making a pitch to win
more support among African Americans. All this has deepened the
Democrats’ trepidations
and backbiting.
The upturn in employment has created better conditions for workers to
begin organizing to fight attacks by the bosses, as more workers sense
if they lose
one job they’ll be able to find another. But the bosses aren’t giving up
on their efforts to drive down wages as they face competition from
rivals at home
and abroad.
Democratic and Republican administrations alike have aided the bosses’
efforts to push the crisis of their system onto our backs, and workers
continue
to feel the impact despite the upturn. Increasing numbers of young
people are unable to afford their own homes or start families. Millions
face rising
costs of basic necessities as well as skyrocketing debt. Insecurity
about what the future will bring marks the lives of workers and farmers
across the
country.
These conditions — ones that brought Trump to the presidency — are also
creating support for the nomination of Bernie Sanders.
Support for Sanders surged in Iowa and he edged out a victory in the New
Hampshire primary, followed closely by centrist Buttigieg. And it’s
becoming clearer
that the Democratic Party machine — that believes a Sanders campaign
would mean a rout for the party’s candidates in November — are out to
rig the nomination
for one of their own, like former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
Joe Biden is rapidly tumbling as the front-runner, making a poor showing
as the “beating-Trump-is-everything” candidate that other Democrats can
unite
behind. He came in fourth in Iowa.
War in the Democratic Party
“In any other country Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party,”
Sanders supporter Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Jan. 7,
highlighting the split
among Democrats. Days later she assured party members that she was a
“proud Democrat” but admitted she was withholding her dues to the party
in protest
at how it selects its candidates.
Sanders runs on a platform of radical reform, railing against the
wealthy and proposing to patch up capitalism. He touts plans to hike
taxes to fund an
expansion of government-backed Medicare health insurance. He says he
would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and praised Amazon
CEO Jeff Bezos
two years ago when Bezos set Amazon’s minimum wage at that meager level.
He points workers away from relying on our own capacities to organize
and struggle against the bosses and urges them to rely on him to “stand
up to Wall
Street,” and make things fairer. He encourages dependency on the state
and its massive regulatory bureaucracy to do good things for working
people if they’ll
just put him in office. This is his plan, rather than a struggle by
workers and our allies to replace the state with our own government —
one that can
lead millions to transform social relations and ourselves in the process.
His democratic socialist supporters at Jacobin magazine say he would
emulate Franklin Delano Roosevelt, enacting a raft of executive orders
from the White
House to do good, because there’s no way he could pass legislation to do
so.
They point to how Roosevelt used anti-democratic orders to create the
Office of Scientific Research and Development, as well as the key bodies
to advance
the U.S. rulers’ entry into the second imperialist world war — like the
War Labor Board that tried to impose a wage freeze on workers.
The Democrats have spent three years — since the day Trump was elected —
trying to overturn the vote that put him in office so they wouldn’t have
to face
him again this November.
Attacks on workers’ rights
“We might have to impeach him again,” headlined a Washington Post column
by George Conway Feb. 10, citing the president’s dismissal of Lt. Col.
Alexander
Vindman and Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union,
from their jobs Feb. 7, as is his right as chief executive. Both
testified against
the president during House impeachment hearings.
In their drive to oust Trump and push out of politics the “deplorable”
workers who refuse to vote the “right way,” the liberals target key
political rights
working people have won in struggle — like the right to vote at all.
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