Election Day: November 5, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has raised $1 billion in less than three months as a presidential candidate, according to three people with knowledge of her fund-raising haul, a remarkable sum that has remade the race against former President Donald J. Trump.
The historic sum does not include money donated to allied super PACs.
- Kamala Harris Has Raised $1 Billion Since Entering 2024 Presidential Race, NY Times
Later, when asked about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, she jumped into a loaded critique of her rival.
“For many people who care about this issue, they also care about bringing down the price of groceries,” she said. “They also care about our democracy and not having a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.”
- Harris Calls Trump a Fascist: 6 Takeaways From Her CNN Town Hall, NY Times
By Gregg Wall (10-26-2024)
As of this writing, we are less than ten days out from the end of this very ugly political contest, by far the worst I have seen in my lifetime. Not necessarily ugly in terms of the sheer nastiness of the candidates toward one another; but nasty in terms of the complete lack of content, ideas, and policies offered by the two candidates. The lack of meaningful debate, the dearth of proposals, the failure of the corporate media to hold the two candidates to account. The endless finger pointing and I’m not my opponent, that passes for this pathetic tribalism, we now call American democracy. The two candidates entirely bought off, entirely corrupt… so inadequate, so poorly vetted - in the case of the Dem nominee - that she didn’t even submit to a primary contest (after dropping out early in 2020, due to a complete lack of support). And in the case of Trump, his candidacy clearly illustrates what a failed economy can do to nearly half the electorate, after financial engineering, greed, price gouging, and the eradication of the middle class take their toll (like Weimar, Germany early 1920s). I’d think we’d be naïve to believe that like the economy itself, America’s tolerance for fascism and pivot hard right wasn’t, at least in part, engineered.
And despite the fever dream, the screaming and the shouting, the ad hominem attacks, the MSM that does its absolute best to drum up the theatre… the two candidates, especially on the border, economy, foreign policy, law & order, the military industrial complex, and the security state panopticon could not possibly be more alike, more identical. It’s like looking at mirror images, so closely shaped by the kleptocracy and multinationals they both serve. The only thing more absurd than the idea that these two candidates will serve anyone, but the failed kleptocracy, monopolies, necroeconomy, and war machine… is the surreal spectacle of the 2024 election itself, the endless farce, the endless campaign specifically designed to suck the oxygen out of any idea or reality that America could have a fully functioning democracy and government.
This, as the planet floods, the yearlong taxpayer funded genocide continues, the national debt soars, child poverty rises, and America burns. There’s no reason for any of it, really.
And yet, it’s the nature of the failed binary dynamic and very much explains why the two parties do absolutely everything in their power to eliminate and foreclose upon third party challengers; because the oligarchy, ultimately, consists of totalitarians and their preference is to buyoff only one party. In America that one party is the duopoly or what many have come to call, the Uniparty. And we see it in Canada and throughout Europe as well… two major parties that serve, exclusively, the establishment. Sometimes with third party challengers that enjoy varying degrees of success, but always the preference for two parties that almost without fail drift further and further right-wing.
Dems are quick to vilify Trump on abortion, because that’s a culture war issue and fair game.
Israel and endless war… are something near and dear to their donors’ hearts. And therefore, Kam is suddenly united with Trump, the taxpayer funded genocide must continue.
When Kam avoids answering questions or makes excuses for the need to genocide, she’s really pandering to her donors. You see this on economic and foreign policy issues where the two parties are in lock step.
What Kam and Trump fail to realize, and this goes for Trudeau… is increasingly voters won’t play the binary, tribal game. (Indeed, a sizable share of the electorate’s refusal to accept Kam and genocide may very well cost Dems the White House.)
An increasing number of voters have come to expect that leadership will meet their expectations, their reasonable demands, not the binary options framed and presented by the predatory elite, who have lost all credibility.
Our current predicament is very bad: a bought off, corrupt government; a totalitarian economy – dominated by cartels, monopolies, and utilities (pretending to be a free market); an increasingly totalitarian government, complete with police state, wholly unresponsive to the public, the world’s largest prison system, and slave labor; $40 trillion debt; endemic poverty and homelessness; a crisis of affordability, housing, and healthcare; and a deregulatory state that has turned America into a Superfund site, a poisoned, toxic landfill. And overriding all, this degeneracy and complete moral collapse, with zero accountability for the ruling class.
We are so mired in corruption, mismanagement, and poor leadership… we’ve forgotten what a gift the country once was and remains (no matter how fraught America’s history with colonialism, genocide, indentured servitude, and slavery, which we must never forget & make every effort to better educate our children on).
We’ve forgotten that our Constitution is but a steppingstone to a better world, and that the founding fathers produced a constitution and government that was supposed to evolve and change… not stagnate and perpetuate a failed status quo. We forget that America… if it is to survive, freedom and democracy if they are to survive… must adapt, evolve, and grow. The possibilities are endless, as are tech’s ability to be harnessed to make direct democracy and decision making by the public, to govern our own affairs, very real.
Even if in order to achieve that end… greater direct democracy, a complete overhaul of the economy and government… requires another revolution.
So, in 2024, so much of the chaos, division, and strife Americans and America finds itself in is by design, engineered, man-made and via violent machinations to keep the public’s head spinning, beaten down, confused, and struggling to survive. And shame on us, many – myself included, for many years – were under the delusion and spell that our government and two major parties served the people. When we all now know, nothing could be further from the truth… it’s ultimately Biden’s greatest achievement and legacy, that America’s government, kleptocracy, multinationals, and the two major parties are revealed as entirely evil. Americans must rally, must focus on taking back our government, and ensuring both the economy and government serves The People, and not only the one percent and the political class.
A better world is available. Where we truly restore our faith in and execute and deliver upon the beliefs in direct democracy and that all humanity is created equal; but this can only be achieved, if we are willing to fight for it. At the present, Kam and Trump, their billionaire/multinational donors, the elitist corporate media (failures all of them) are betting and working towards ensuring that America and the world have lost all will to fight or will return to despondency and dependence upon hopiates and very low expectations. That we resign ourselves to the fate appointed us by the malefactors of war, wealth, and great economic and political violence.
The fate of the slaughterhouse. I can assure you, dear reader, they really think so little of us.
Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2024
