'You're fired' or 'Biden wins stolen election'

By Myles Hoenig

We won’t likely know for days, or even a week or more who will win tonight’s showcase of American democracy (sarcasm alert). If Biden should pull out a stunning victory I’m sure the liberal media will lead with ‘You’re Fired’. If it should go to Trump they’ll say, “Chaos Reigns!”.

The right wing media will say “Biden Wins Stolen Election” while for Trump it just might say “Four More Years!”.

The oldest political cliché in the US is ‘This is the most important election in our lifetime.’ For once, I almost agree. The election of Ronald Reagan gave us the Bushes, Clinton, Obama and now Trump. Presidential subservience to Wall Street was indelibly cemented during this time, not that Wall Street never had control of our elections. But this time Trump is different and will and has taken us onto a different but a corollary path.

Wall Street will continue to dominate all aspects of governing, as it will clearly and enthusiastically under a Biden administration.

Trump’s approach is unique in American history and politics. We’ve had incredibly evil racists in the White House before. Andrew Jackson, Trump’s hero, and Woodrow Wilson were probably the most overt of all. But Jackson’s support of genocide against the native population and Wilson’s support of oppressing black citizens were targets against people already on the bottom stratum of American life.

Today, with a future President Trump, his four years of attacking the average citizen will become an outright war on such people. The only marginalized people today that he attacks are the ultra-left, which has been dormant in American since maybe the 60s. But lumping nearly all Americans who ARE antifa into a small group is tactically smart for carrying out a campaign of repression and war on America itself, creating his own SA, but to what end is left for the fortune tellers.

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What is normal about this election is the nomination of Joe Biden. Racist, misogynist, war monger, bank servant, just your normal, everyday candidate for president. He’ll take America back from the 1930s and bring it up to at least the 1970s.

Costing more and more to buy a federal office

In 1875 Mark Twain said, “I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.” He also said, “We have the best government that money can buy.” Every election cycle the cost to buy Congress and the White House increases, and this year it’s almost exponential.  $14 billion to buy a position of political power is the new normal, and next time around it’s likely to double.

Where does all the money come from? It certainly doesn’t come from Uncle George breaking open his piggy bank to give a few dollars to his favorite candidate. Multi-national corporations are by far the near-exclusive purchasers of raw power. Since Citizens United, where money was equated with free speech, the obscenity of money in politics has been on steroids. As it was in 1875, so too today, but even by our standards, that is a lot of money.

It’s rare for a politician to raise enormous money on small, individual donations. Bernie Sanders was one. His average contribution was $27, but he had such a great appeal to the public that he even out-raised his competitors. But like Sanders, a candidate also loses with that kind of money raised. A billion dollar campaign often loses to the 2 billion dollar campaign. Yet in more local races, money doesn’t always equate with one’s success.

But what this shows is that the average person has virtually no say in who is elected, or really selected. We are an oligarchy, as the Princeton/Northwestern study showed, not that we needed a study to know that. There should be no more pretense that we are a representative democracy. We are not represented. Giving the price of an aircraft to a campaign guarantees a bit more of an audience with whom they purchased than one giving $27.

If ever there were to be real electoral reform, addressing the need for money needs to be the highest priority. Rank choice voting, even the issue of preventing voter suppression by both parties, cannot be fully addressed until money is neutralized, whereas the most credible but loneliest candidate can compete with the Boeings, the Walmarts, the General Electrics of the world.

$14 billion being spent during 2020 US election cycle: Report

A record 14 billion dollar is being spent during the 2020 US election cycle, with Democrats doubling the spending by Republican candidates, according to a report.

*Myles Hoenig is a political analyst in Baltimore, Maryland. He ran for Congress in 2016 as a Green Party candidate. He recorded this article for Press TV website. 

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