"Is it over yet?"
Why I have not been writing much about this current US Presidential Election
The campaign is just too long.
I can recall from way back in the 90s of the last century that media coverage really wouldn’t begin until around Groundhog Day of the actual year in which the election would take place. That by itself was already far, far too long. Media coverage of the election cycle now seems like a permanent feature, sucking the energy out of everyone who is interested in politics, but who can’t find the extra energy to devote it if they aren’t being paid to do so.
I don’t think I’ve typed the name “KAMALA” more than five times this year, because she is a cipher; a person without any real strong beliefs or convictions beyond her own selfish ones. She is a showroom dummy for the powers-that-be, albeit nowhere near an ideal one as everyone who isn’t a liar will readily concede.
Trump, for better or for worse, is already a known factor. You know what you are going to get with him. The only question is whether he has learned any actual lessons from his previous residency in the White House that could help him perform better the next time around….if he does occupy it in late January of 2025. He was the worst performing POTUS of my lifetime (not the worst POTUS, that was Dubya), half it of being his own fault, the rest belonging to those who were purposely engaged in actively subverting his administration. Has he learned anything? I am not in a position to tell.
Nor am I going to offer up a prediction. In 2016, I strongly suggested that there was no way that “they” were going to allow him into the White House. I was working under the assumption that the vote count would be rigged to prevent him from winning the Presidency. I was wrong then, so I am out of the prediction game. Nor can I trust any predictions because of how high the stakes are. If this is actually “the most important election in US history”, then it is incumbent upon all those involved to cheat in order to win. If you are not cheating in “the most important election in US history”, then you are admitting that it is indeed not “the most important election in US history”.
Glenn Greenwald made an excellent point when he noted that vocal anti-Trump political and media figures who insisted that Trump is the “New Hitler” but who denounced the first assassination attempt made on him either never believed that he is New Hitler, or were lying about being happy that he was not assassinated. If Trump is New Hitler, then you should want him assassinated as Hitler is the New Satan in our present civilization’s secular religion. If this election is the most important one ever in US history, than you should be doing everything to ensure that your side wins, whether you support Trump or Kamala.
95% of Americans who intend to vote already decided who they were going to vote for two years ago, no matter who would be running on the Dem ticket (Trump was always going to win the GOP nomination). It’s been all noise ever since, with the two assassination attempts the only real stories coming out of this election. Vice-Presidents don’t matter, unless you are Dick Cheney, so the amount of media attention given over to Vance and Walz is another sign of over-saturation.
This election was always going to be a referendum on what we call the “Deep State”, even though Trump is aligned with the Deep State on so many issues, China being the best example. I wager that future historians are going to have difficulty understanding why the powers-that-be were so stridently opposed to him beyond elements of his personality.
No matter who moves into the White House next year, 90% of what is happening in the USA will remain the same. Four years is a short time in US politics, and the American system is designed for compromise and hostage to gridlock via the balances and checks built into it. Biden’s foreign policy is a continuation of Trump’s, which was a continuation of Obama’s, which was a continuation of Dubya’s. Only certain touches were different, with Dubya’s being more unilateral in nature than Obama’s for example, as his administration sought to achieve the same goals via multilateralist approaches. I still don’t know why they fear Trump and any policy that he would pursue regarding Russia or NATO. To me, it’s nonsensical; Trump is a wheeler-dealer, not a revolutionary. In his first go at office he was more than happy to give the US Armed Forces anything that they wanted, for example.
This leaves immigration as the only big ticket issue where real change can come about. But I have to raise the question about how much can be done in four years if Trump enters the White House and has to deal with Congress, and deal with lawfare trying to halt any changes that he would seek regarding immigration. Does his team have a strategy in place that will allow them to hit the ground running right away? Is there a strategy to avoid legal challenges? How much can be done via executive actions?
Steve Bannon said something in either late 2015 or 2016 that has stuck with me ever since: that it would take 20 years of consecutive victories in order to reform the system. This means 20 years of wins at the highest level in order to be able to gut the federal bureaucracy/Deep State and make actual change possible. This makes perfect sense to me. I am aware of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, but is it doable?
I can only speak for myself when I say that fatigue with this election cycle set in months ago. I just want to see who wins because a Kamala win means business as usual, and a Trump win means that we will see if he has actually learned anything from his time in office.
If it were up to me, the media coverage of the US Election cycle would last longer than those in the UK or France, as the USA is the world’s most important country. I think that it should last no longer than four months at the maximum. This, of course, is pie-in-the-sky from me, as there are too many interests involved, and too much money to be had in covering this long, drawn-out torture.
I am thinking of publishing more of these short pieces that are a bit more superficial than my usual fare. These entries should be free for all to read as they are not lengthy, and especially because they don’t require too much effort to put together.
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More short and easy pieces are fine with me. They seem like a middle ground between a tweet and a proper article. It’s also an easy way to start a conversation among your followers in the comment section.
Anyways, I agree. Regardless of who wins, the primary direction of America will not change. We’ll just have more Drag Queen Story Hour or less of it depending on who is elected. I’d be happy to be wrong, but I’m not planning my life around a new era dawning after this election.