US elections: Why must voters choose between fascism and genocidal Zionism?
These days, as we get closer to D-Day for the US presidential elections, The New York Times is publishing one article after another about Donald Trump and fascism.
"John Kelly, the Trump White House's longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist," The Times reports.
"Is It Fascism?" asks another piece. Robert Paxton, a leading historian, once thought the label was overused but has now changed his mind in the face of "Trumpism".
A Times podcast leads a countdown: "12 Days to Go: French Fries and Fascism". One piece after another reminds readers that Trump is a "fascist to the core", while a headline reads: "Harris and Democrats Lose Their Reluctance to Call Trump a Fascist".
In this regard, the so-called "paper of record" is, of course, right.
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Trump is a fascist, and given the opportunity, he will turn this country into Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, Franco's Spain - all European variations on this American pivot towards fascism.
Yet, in that same paper, you will not be able to find a single reference to the genocide that has unfolded in Palestine and Lebanon over the last 13 months - except to question and discredit this fact. And absent from any reports is that President Joe Biden, and by extension, his vice president, Kamala Harris, are chiefly responsible.
The New York Times is big on warning Americans about Trump's fascism but entirely missing in action when it comes to Israel's genocidal Zionism that Biden and Harris are fully endorsing.
Despite their denials, Israel's campaign of extermination remains a "textbook case of genocide", as leading experts in the field have plainly asserted.
A macabre carnival
The 2024 US presidential election - an event that has become one of the grandest and most perverse political spectacles in the country's calendar - is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, 5 November.
Chiefly a race between the top candidates from the two main political parties, Republican and Democratic, it is a macabre nationwide carnivalesque occasion.
If these two candidates are identical in the genocidal machinery unleashed in Palestine, they will be similar in just about anything else
Millions of desperate or delusional Americans must rush to a voting booth and decide which kind of calamity they hope can best save them from its even worse alternative.
Indeed, it is a frightful spectacle.
Harris or Trump will soon occupy the most violent elected office in their homeland (and the world).
One of these two candidates will soon have the same deadly power of committing vicious acts of violence currently wielded by the evidently demented Biden.
For more than a year now, Biden, a confessed Zionist, has bankrolled one of the most wicked acts of genocide in history with military equipment, diplomatic cover, political chicanery, pernicious lies and prevarications, and outright charlatanism of pretending to work on a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon while buying time for Israel to slaughter an entire nation with ease.
His secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has proved himself capable of lying through his teeth that he is working on a ceasefire while facilitating his fellow Zionists' mass murder of Palestinians ("Why, I can smile and murder while I smile").
He will go down in history as even more of a sadistic liar than Henry Kissinger.
'Greater of two evils'
Just before Biden, his predecessor, Trump, laid bare the astounding vulgarity and brutish hatred with which his unabashed and open racism and xenophobia defined and exposed the inner texture of American social and political history.
Going forward, Biden's replica, Harris, is now poised to follow in the footsteps of her predecessors, while Trump is ready to do more of the same. The question, therefore, is not which one of these two greater evils would any decent human being bring themselves to vote for, but what combined calamity they both present to the future of our fragile earth.
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The harm that either of these two candidates would undoubtedly do to the world at large is immeasurable. They are both capable of unbridled brutality of the sort Israel is now perpetrating in Palestine and Lebanon, and both are destroying what is left of the democratic institutions of this country, largely for the personal gain of the few members of their billionaire clubs over the fate of our entire humanity.
What sort of a choice is this? What kind of person can bring themselves to vote for either of these two candidates? What sort of a country is this vicious killing machine to subject our entire earthly existence to such barbaric choices? A Harris redux? Trump again? Really?
Around 40 to 50 percent of eligible American voters usually do not vote in any presidential elections. Of the 50 to 60 percent who do vote, they are almost equally divided between Republicans and Democrats.
No decent human being, American or otherwise, has a choice in this presidential election: If you vote for Harris, you vote for the sustained genocide of an entire nation. If you opt for Trump, you elect a convicted criminal with a track record of Judeo-Christian racist world domination and domestic fascism.
The trouble with American elections is that those who disregard these blatant facts and vote for one of these two greater evils will do so for the rest of Americans who would rather uphold their decency and not give their endorsement to leaving the world at the mercy of American military thuggery.
Irredeemable politics
In this country, it is a proverbial wisdom that there is no third party in the US because they are still waiting for a second party to emerge. The existing two parties are identical in their genocidal militarism and backing of the Israeli settler colony, with one openly planning its fascist takeover of the entire country.
Either of their victories would be a calamity for humanity at large. On the single most significant moral and political issue of our time, the Israeli genocide in Palestine, Trump and Harris are identical.
That one supports reproductive rights while the other meanders, or one acknowledges a climate crisis but still endorses fracking, while the other does not believe in any climate threat, is utterly and totally irrelevant to that catastrophe.
If these two candidates are identical in the genocidal machinery unleashed in Palestine, they will be similar in just about anything else.
Right now, a reactionary Republican like Liz Cheney and her father, Dick Cheney, are endorsing Harris. Could any decent human being bring themselves to join this spectacle?
Some 50 percent of American voters, give and take, will join the spectacle, humouring themselves with the delusion they are making a real choice. They are not.
They are conditioned by the commercial logic of their degenerate capitalism to choose between Coke and Pepsi, McDonald's and KFC, Nike and Reebok, Apple and Samsung, or Trump and Harris.
American party politics is irredeemable.
From Bush to Obama to Biden to whoever comes after this election, the ruling regime in the US is a dysfunctional imperial project that will continue to do what it has always done: use Israel as the extended arm of its regional and global warfare for world domination, in a fateful final confrontation with Russia and China.
The slaughter of the Lebanese and the genocide of Palestinians means nothing to them.
No hope
American politics is as stricken with newspeak gibberish as Biden administration officials are wont to repeating senselessly their mantra of "Israel has the right to defend itself" and superficially lament that "far too many Palestinians have been killed" in a passive voice.
This is the full scenario the US has for the world at large: Genocidal Zionism folded into American fascism
Like Biden, Harris is incurable in her commitment to genocidal Zionism. Trump is determined in his pathological drive to impose authoritarian rule in this country.
There is no hope in this calamity. There is no choice between these two horror stories. They do not contradict each other. They complement each other.
This is the full scenario the US has for the world at large: genocidal Zionism folded into American fascism.
The sooner the American public recognises this fact, the sooner we may begin to grasp the full scale of the monstrosity the world faces.
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