US Presidential Elections:
The Farce of Two Party Democracy
Within a month, the citizens
of USA will decide their next
president for the next four years.
The election campaign is being
conducted on a level indescribably
low and debasing. Mutual
mudslinging, name-calling and
evasion of issues facing the people
hav e been the prominent
phenomena in this campaign.
According to the report by the
IMF, debt in the nonfinancial sector
of the world economy has doubled
since 2000, reaching staggering
$152 trillion, more than 225 per
cent of global GDP. This may lead
to another collapse of market
similar to 2008 crisis, warned the
IMF. This means loss of more jobs,
more hunger and impoverishment
of the people in the US, particularly
youth.
Yet such a looming danger of
collapse of capitalist economy has
never discussed during the
election campaign. The Republican
candidate, Donald Trump, gave a
national chauvinistic colour to the
prob lem of unemp loyment by
putting the blame in migrant
workers and on India and China as
stealers of jobs of American youth.
The same chauvinistic line of
argument was pursued, albeit with
sof t tone, by the democratic
candidate Hillary Clinton.
Alongside giving the national
chauvinistic colour, both the
candidates are hostile to any
agitation from the working class.
While the Clinton campaign as the
continuator of Obama policies
which are being placated as
successful, Trump repeatedly
pointed out the dismal economic
conditions in which the working
class is thrown. Yet both have not
made any alternative to better the
living and working conditions of
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working class. While the Clinton
wants to control the working class
through pliable trade union
leadership, Trump calls for brutal
force upon the struggles of working
class to maintain “law and order”.
The election campaign has no
time to discuss the on-going war
by the US imperialism on foreign
lands, which are bleeding the
economy of the country, for which
the American people has to pay
through their pockets and the
American youth with their lives.
It is clearly evident during the
election campaig n that the
presidential candidates will take a
posture in public and in no time
promises exactly the opposite in
private talks. Hillary Clinton’s paid
speech to the Wall Street
executives, exposed by the Wiki
Leaks, has caused a furor as she
publicly took anti-trade posture and
in close door meeting promised
pro-trade policies.
To benumb this ire, a five year
old lewd and vulgar comments
made by Trump about women was
resurrected. It eclipsed the Hillary’s
paid speeches. On his part Trump
concentrated on exposing the Bill
Clinton’s affairs with women. Both
the republican and Democratic
parties and leaders engaged
them selves in this mutual
mudslinging to skirt the real
problem from the gaze of people,
that is, what measures the US ruling
classes wants to carry out by the
next president?
Whoever – Clinton or Trump –
wins the election he/she has to
implement the measures dictated
by the US ruling classes. It is the
ruling classes which decides, who
would serve their interests more
effectively, he/she should be the
occupant of the White House for
the next four years.
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