What is the 2024 Election all about?
For Democrats, it's Trump; for Republicans, it's immigrants; for Americans, it's a wasteland
The 2024 presidential election: What a wasteland.
Democrats want to make the election about Donald Trump. And abortion access. Republicans want to make it about immigration. And Joe Biden’s fitness for office.
The Bernie Sanders of 2016 is much missed. Sanders challenged war-hawk Hillary Clinton on issues that mattered to Americans. Issues like a $15 federal minimum wage. Affordable health care for all. Comprehensive student loan debt relief and more affordable college education. Policy proposals that actually helped working-class Americans. Those issues are now dead in 2024.
Foreign policy is especially bleak. The Biden administration is enabling genocide in Israel; most Republicans fully support this. Biden is planning a military strike of some sort against Iran; most Republicans are urging him to strike harder. The bipartisan consensus in DC is to rubber-stamp whatever Bibi Netanyahu wants, to give the Pentagon everything it wants, and to pursue more wars overseas. The only debate is over which foreign country is more dangerous to America. China? Russia? Iran? Maybe even North Korea? It doesn’t matter. The result is the same: more money for war, no money for peace.
I can’t recall an election season less connected to the concerns of middle- and working-class Americans. Democrats are fundraising by stressing fears about Trump and abortion access; Republicans are fundraising off fears of America being swamped by immigrants due to the Democrats’ “open border” policy.
Meanwhile, this is a sample of headlines from mainstream media coverage of the election, taken from NBC News this morning:
Takeaways from the 2024 cash dash: Legal cases drain Trump as Biden builds reserves
More than $27M in Trump campaign fundraising went to legal costs in the last six months of 2023
Nikki Haley's super PAC spent big to fuel her rise. It started 2024 with little left.
RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign spent more than it raised last quarter and left $5.4M in the bank
Where are the issues that matter to Americans? The “cash dash” is what matters to NBC, not issues like health care, wages, inflation, personal and national debt, the availability of affordable housing, mental health care, and so on.
Meanwhile, I can’t recall the last time I saw an article in the mainstream media that seriously argued for major reductions to Pentagon spending and concerted efforts in diplomacy instead of constant warmongering and weapons exports.
Trump-Biden is a wasteland. Don’t vote for the tools and fools. Find candidates who actually want to help America without killing massive numbers of foreigners overseas.
Good luck to all of us—we’re going to need it.
The US political class and their corporate pay-masters don't give a rat's ass about what is in the best interests of working men and women. The people are treated as nothing more than malleable serfs in our new "techno-feudalistic" society. Self-aggrandizement and war making are the only two urges they have. The system is irrevocably broken, not to mention corrupted. With the looming weeks-long bombing raids against Iranian supporters that are planned by Biden/Blinken/Sullivan/Nuland, we are staring into the abyss.
And don't forget the most important question in the week leading to the Swift, I mean Super, Bowl - who will Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce endorse?
Unfortunately, I think we are long past the point where any national election is going to make a difference in the direction this country is headed. Politics is too corrupted by money; the politicians themselves are degenerate representations of who we are told they are. US foreign policy is controlled by defense contractors and the state of Israel. The MSM functions as a propaganda ministry to push narratives that keep the citizenry in fear and uncertainty - and hating their neighbors that hold different views of some carefully selected issues.
Voting third party may satisfy, but it will change nothing.