Trump is accused of being a "strongman" or a "caudillo", but 2020 proves it is the Clintons, McConnells, Bidens, Bushes and Pelosis who are the largely-despised and clearly incompetent leaders who could not care less if the country goes to ruin as long as they don't lose their slices of privilege.
2020 has removed the emperor's clothes: the US is a banana republic, and the one interest which predominates is not fruit but elite privilege.
"Privilege" is not a word one hears in the United States: the Iranian Islamic Revolution was openly "anti-privilege", but this term (when used politically) is so foreign that it is not at all comprehended by the average American, I have found. So, clearly, the problem is cultural and not just limited to the area around Washington DC.
Regardless, in the 21st century votes must be made. Or not made - by not voting an American does indeed give powerful ammunition to non-Americans to assert that this current US system is domestically rejected. But the decisions of Washington's duopoly in 2020 are absolutely incomprehensible unless one considers the possibility that they are not at all concerned with the citizenry.
The lack of a 2nd stimulus is incomprehensible and completely shameful, but both parties are clearly behind it. All of the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" of the past four years cannot explain the actions of the Democratic Party since March.
And make no mistake: an additional $1,200 - if it does somehow arrive - is totally inadequate, given the prices in the US: From March until October $1,200 works out to less than $7 per day. Trust me that the average American is screaming every day about this paltry sum, even if their Mainstream Media prefers to talk about stock prices every hour.
The reality is that the redistribution of wealth which we are discussing - a "People's QE" - is something which the US has only seen one of, ever. Why should we expect the right-wing, dog-eat-dog American system to release a second tranche of direct aid to privilege-less American households?
Economically, culturally and politically the United States is lost in the modern wilderness - how very far gone they are? But in just a few weeks they could cast a single vote to change one of these things immediately, but not with a vote for a Republican or a Democrat.
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