July 24, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - President
Trump’s U-turn admission on the coronavirus
pandemic, acknowledging that it’s going to get
worse before it gets better, could be applied to
the general condition of American politics. It
can only get worse under present circumstances.
That’s because there is no way to solve
deep-seated problems in the US system under the
prevailing bipartisan framework.
It is delusional for Democrats to blame Trump
and the Republicans for all the woes of that
nation. The notion that America can be returned
to some kind of presumed normality if Joe Biden
is elected to the White House in November is a
fantasy.
Likewise it is delusional for Republicans to
scapegoat Democrats for tearing up the social
fabric. Trump and fellow Republicans in Congress
and in rightwing media are casting all the
upheaval of protests and street violence on
“radical left Democrats”. That’s just a
preposterous denial of how deeply entrenched
problems are in the US, from poverty, police
brutality and racial discrimination. As well,
the notion of “radical left Democrats”
is a complete misnomer.
For the US system is fundamentally broken.
That is the legacy of the two-party system, both
of which are dominated by, and servile to, the
corporate power of Wall Street, big business and
the military-industrial complex. Right and Left
are superficial meaningless American political
adjectives. They are both centrally corporate
vehicles.
The two parties, Republican and Democrat, are
just two sides of the same coin. That coin is
corporate power. The US is not a democracy in
practice. The voting cycle is just a chimera of
“democratic rights” amidst a plutocracy.
Both parties whether they control the
executive in the White House or the legislative
branch in Congress have presided over endless
overseas wars and foreign aggressions, while
domestically both parties have overseen massive,
relentless impoverishment of the majority of
working Americans for the obscene enrichment of
a ruling elite. That is the essential function
of American capitalism and its imperialist
bullying. And neither of the two parties have
shown any will or cognizance of opposing that
fundamental function.
Barack Obama, the Democrat who extolled “hope
and change” brought nothing of the sort. He
oversaw more wars and more bombing and killing
in foreign countries.
Donald Trump, the Republican maverick,
promised to “drain the swamp” and end
“endless wars”. He did nothing of the sort.
Nothing changes in the two-party system that
defines American politics because the duopoly is
designed to ensure that there is precisely no
change.
American corporate capitalism and its oligarchy is an
entity wired for war. The intrinsic injustice of the
system, from its genocidal foundations to the
contemporary drive for global dominance, necessitates
that violence and war are constant concomitants.
Republicans or Democrats don’t change that endemic
condition. They merely deliver it with different
accentuations.
Take the present reckless escalation of tensions with
China by the Trump administration. There seems little
doubt that Washington is seeking to corral China for its
global ambitions under a range of pretexts, from the
corona pandemic to allegations of espionage, which also
serves to distract the US public from its massive
internal failings as a fractured society.
But Democrat rival Joe Biden
is not offering anything different. He is engaging
in mindless provocations with China too, trying to outdo
Trump as to who can sound more bellicose towards
Beijing.
Biden is also posing as the would-be new sheriff in
the White House, vowing to get tough on Russia over
alleged meddling in US politics. The posturing is an
empty, futile fabrication. Meanwhile Trump asserts that
“no-one is tougher on Russia” than him. And so down the
proverbial rabbit hole we go, never emerging.
Both parties play the foreign bogeyman game as a way
to justify American imperialism in the service of
corporate capitalism.
That’s why nothing ever changes for the benefit and
progress of ordinary Americans, or indeed for the rest
of the world which has to endure US aggression over and
over.
What needs
to change is the entire paradigm of American politics.
The two-party system is obsolete. The nation needs to
organize political representation to defend and progress
the interests of the majority working people. That
requires a head-on challenge to the vested corporate
powers of Wall Street, big business and its media and
the military-industrial complex.
In short, American capitalism has to be reckoned
with. Can it be reformed root and branch? Or does it
need to be abolished, supplanted altogether by genuine
democracy? That’s up to American people organized for
their rights to determine. But one thing is certain.
There are no answers for progress under the present
corrupt duopoly. As it is, America is in terminal
decline.
Finian Cunningham has written
extensively on international affairs, with articles
published in several languages. He is a Master’s
graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a
scientific editor for the Royal Society of
Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a
career in newspaper journalism. He is also a
musician and songwriter. For nearly 20 years, he
worked as an editor and writer in major news media
organisations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and
Independent. - "Source"
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