IT IS WHAT IT IS .....

 

As Mr. Trump and his oligarchy and their GOP blind followers are working furiously 24/7 to sabotage every chance his Democratic opponent and every Democratic politician's chance they have at winning the November elections, they want to suppress votes, kill institutions like the post office, spread lies and fake news, to stop any Democratic advance, break their spirit and demoralize Democratic and independent voters totally. 

Joe Biden's message to the nation is: " We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us, we have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those differences for political gain. We have often retreated behind our differences when no one really tried to lead us beyond them. But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common ... I want to make the system work again, and I'm convinced that is what all Americans really want. 

Well, honestly Mr. Biden, I don't share your optimism and honest morality, and I frankly don't believe all Americans are so loving and caring for each other, and looking for the ideal system that will work for everyone on equal footing, an egalitarian socio-economical-humanitarian-moral system for all, not internally or internationally, we are witnessing a good third of the population following blindly and willingly, enthusiastically a fascistic, pro conspiracy fanatic, a wheeler dealer who is determined to wreck the country and its democracy, its institutions and people for his own personal benefit and electoral ambitions. Your kind words and intentions Mr. Biden do not come up nor stand to the situation we're facing. 

What is happening nowadays in America with its internal politics, foreign policies, elections, with its civility at all levels, its widening inequitable wealth distribution, its efforts to rebuild the country's infrastructure, its education at all levels, its health system and response to dangerous pandemics, on the brink of war in more than a place, it is all becoming a huge farce, a joke, a politicized tool, a personal glorifying game, these cases and many more similar ones, make it appear that the simpletons, the idiots, the fanatic zealots have obviously taken over the asylum, and only the rapid institution of some sane rules is going to bring back life and politics to a semblance of sanity, normalcy and progress. 

finally, and to sum it up, I have to say , that the great Democratic convention, was more of a nice Broadway joyous and merry show than a serious responsible political convention, especially considering the ill fated times America is going through, and the havoc the Trump legacy is leaving behind, it was more entertainment and less substance, more artistry and make-up and less sobriety, maybe it reflects the 21st century American mood and nonchalance toward our existential problems and politics in general, IT'S SHOW TIME AND THE SHOW MUST CONTINUE !!!

          As always, my many thanks to all, stay safe.                   

A LOOK AT THE NEW PRESIDENTIAL TICKET .....

 

Yesterday Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for the presidential election in early November named California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, making history by selecting the first woman of color, descending from Jamaican and Indian parents, to compete against Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Harris joins Biden at a critical moment of unprecedented national crisis. 

The country is living its worse pandemic in one hundred years that claimed over 200.000 lives and several millions of positive cases, business closures and disruptions resulting from the Covid virus, that left millions without jobs, over 10% unemployment rate, many risk evictions and becoming homeless, many struggle to feed their children and families, a further disparity in wealth, health, education between different levels of society, plus an ongoing civil unrest due to harsh racist practices and police brutality. 

Like many in America, and the world, Harris left some a bit disappointed or cold at best, her whole ideology wasn't progressive enough, we will examine these claims further down, I had and still have different serious reservations about her foreign policies and opinions, especially toward the Middle-East and its various conflicts, for instance, among the list of finalists who were under consideration by the Biden campaign for the VP role, Harris had the clearest record of support for Israel and its present leadership, and with Biden himself, an enthusiastic modern Zionist, all policies created by the ill previous administration, have no realistic chance of being restudied, revised or revoked. 

But if we look from a strictly American perspective, at the woman herself and the position, she's still a sure main street progressive, with possibilities of progressive initiatives, and neutral in her ideologies, which objectively might serve well the presidency, the country and its citizens, and as Mark shields said on NPR she has a million Dollar smile. And with a Trump, his family and oligarchy administration's failure after failure, endangering the unity and prosperity of the American majority, every honest citizen voter ought to think clearly, rationally and give this coming election some serious consideration.

Lately in America, the debate about candidates and in our case the second in command, was shaping around what can a presidential team do and what policies, ideas and progress can they advance, or just consider who can best beat Trump/Pence and win the election. While most people now accept that both factors are as important and determining factors, and not just one of them. 

In our times, here in America, many people are suffering and being subjected to great pain, whether they've lost their jobs, their businesses, their loved ones to the virus, or having to choose between keeping a roof over their heads, or paying for medical emergency, or feeding their families, not to talk about educating their kids, our actual president and his entire administration, don't want to be distracted by any of these, they're actually showing signs of getting bored from some aspects of these threatening problems.

 Mr. Trump managed even to totally politicize and using an institutions like the post offices as a hostage, employing more than half a million individuals and probably feeding 700.000 families across America, he is flatly refusing to help providing any funding to save it, he's even threatening to veto any funding, because he strongly believe that republicans will loose the elections if every American could vote, he said it clearly in an interview with Fox news. while their major priority is keeping Wall Street in good shape and the Nasdaq skyrocketing.

The Biden/Harris duo give some glimpse of hope to millions of Americans. While regaining the soul of the nation, they seem to understand that taking care of needy people, and all the people, isn't a distraction, it is the job. I only hope that this duo will change their words of leading the world into inspiring the world, it's a way of thinking.

Now it remains to be seen, if this duo, once elected to lead our country, will treat the rest of the world, be it in Latin America, the Middle-East and its conflicts, Israel and its brutal colonial supremacy, our endless adventures, wars and conflicts with so many, and lately, backed by an absurd jealousy, turning China into our newest perpetual enemy. While we keep falling into the hands of our corporate greedy masters, and their war machines, will the duo be able to reverse some or most of these policies that are becoming our life engine. 

          As always my thanks to all , be safe and well.                        

ANTIFA ......

Antifa, a political protest movement comprising of various autonomous groups opposing fascism and other forms of extreme right wing ideologies, including white supremacy and Nazi like tactics .
Mr. Trump and his AG Mr. Barr and some Republican legislators like Ted Cruz want to classify and designate officially Antifa as a terrorist organization, there's no proof at all of any Antifa member using violence or causing the death of anyone, unlike the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan which is not declared nor classified as a terrorist organization.

In the last century both Bolshevism and Fascism proved to be two false dawns, they didn't bring the morning of a new day to their nations nor to the world, but only some archaic times. Later in the century came the U.S. global role of supremacy and control of the world, it worked for few decades with some ups and downs, some balances and restrictions, but since then, the world in its entirety, even what we call and consider allies, got bored and tired of being ordered, bullied, threatened and commanded.

We couldn't and wouldn't stop our vulgar adventures all over, denying it was all for the sole advantage of a permanent war machine and its corporate profiteers behind it. We kept our games of camouflaging, ignoring every other rational warning. Our lies to the whole world managed to convince us, and only us, of a pseudo rectitude of behavior in our policies and acts.

Our model has failed, the world today is not interested in our military prowess and our war machine, it is rather looking at our public health, our education and research levels, our infrastructures, our social equity and equilibrium, social benefits and securities, and while the world is seeing mostly failures and mediocrities, a horribly ill wealth distribution and total unfair taxation, a very corrupt and partisan  political class leading to a total mismanagement of our capacities.

Historically, as Rome inherited the Greco-oriental culture, ruled the world and then lost it all, America is going through the same process, it inherited a medieval European religious and conservative, supremacist culture, an aggressive and brutal one, that exercised from its very first days death and annihilation against every and anyone who stood in its colonial and imperial way, be them native Americans, Hispanics, enslaved Africans, even French and British powers.

It went on for decades even centuries, culminating very lately in one man, one regime, a Mr. Trump, his oligarchy and family, who got exposed showing all of our weaknesses and long dating faults. But, is it not a universal way, look at Israel's Netanyahu, Turkey's Erdogan, Iran's mullahs, plus all other fools around the globe following our example and political guidance.

America is ceasing to rule, and no one sees who is going to take her place, and that is the simple truth. Not China or Europe or Russia, not Iran or Turkey, Israel or Saudi Arabia regionally will be capable of filling the gap. It sounds good and amusing to some for a while, even positive, but I'm more afraid of a chaotic outcome and a very dangerous one for that.

The entire world is learning nowadays what Talleyrand told Napoleon back then ; You can do almost  everything with bayonets, sire, except sit on them. We are all learning that to rule is not the gesture of snatching at power, nor to be brutal, vengeful, and fascistic, but the tranquil exercise of it. America is learning it the hard way, while the Middle-East is paying a very high price for not applying it.

Many countries around the world, including the U.S. , are facing periods of great difficulty in their internal lives, with strenuous problems of law, economics, equality of wealth and public order, states cannot keep crushing the independence of the individuals nor the groups, they will implode sooner or later. Increasing fascistic tactics and police numbers and armaments and brutality will lead inevitably to situations of great instability, and even civil unrest and wars, as we keep witnessing all through the Middle-East and other parts.

Most countries have passed through periods when someone who shouldn't rule has made the attempt to grab power, but a strong instinct and will forced them to rethink and crush those claims to usurp and hold power, some democratically some by force, many countries rejected these passing irregularities, and reconstituted their reason and morality as people. We cannot keep escaping from our real destiny, blinding ourselves to its evidence, we cannot keep playing deaf to our real problems and avoid facing up to what has to be .
                            As always , my many thanks to all for following, stay safe.