Sep 14, 2024 2 min read

Donald Trump will not end democracy in America, mostly because he can’t end what doesn’t exist anymore. As George Carlin pointed out back in 2005, we don’t have a democracy in this country, we have owners. Owners who have long bought out the representative, executive, and judicial branches, and make sure the money they want spent gets spent where they want it, and the wars they want fought get fought where they want them.

The only thing more idiotic than claiming that Trump will “end democracy,” are claims that Kamala Harris is a “communist.” First, because few people are dumb enough to believe that. And second, because for the Americans struggling to pay their rents or mortgages and put food on the table, redistributing wealth sounds a lot better than what Harris actually offers; more the same neoliberal or neoconservative mess we already have.

Whether she or Trump are in the White House, we can expect a continuation of the proxy war in Ukraine which has sacrificed tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives and tens of billions of American dollars, and brought the planet the closest it has been to World War III, in order to “weaken Russia.” You don’t get an endorsement from Dick Cheney, as Harris did, if you’re a threat to the military-industrial complex.

We can also expect the U.S. to continue to pour billions of dollars’ worth of arms into Israel as it expands the conflict into the West Bank and try to draw the U.S. into a war with Iran.

What we can’t expect is for either of them to prioritize the American people, mostly because they don’t work for us. They work for our owners, and the most the latter will allow us is the illusion of choice. Me? I’m voting for Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein. I’d rather throw away my vote in protest against this sham than throw it away in support of it.

James Scoblick

Pittsburgh