Let's be clear what Trump is
really saying when he says that the "election
is rigged" and then tells his supporters to go into and "monitor" the
voting in big cities with lots of Black and immigrant voters. He means
that his backers should go out and intimidate Black people and
dark-skinned immigrants from exercising what is in fact their right.
Whatever his aims in terms of the election, he is aiming to further
mobilize a combative white supremacist social base, willing to fight
against Black and Brown people exercising their rights, and for
fascism.
Any such attempt in any city must be vigorously
opposed, with real determination. While the right to vote in this system
is nothing but an exercise in which people choose who will oppress
them, any attempt to deny that right to people based on their
nationality cannot be tolerated. This is especially true when Black
people, along with some whites, bled and died for the right of
African-American people to vote, including in the 1960s. Even today
shameless white supremacist politicians maneuver to exclude Black and
Brown people from the ballot, and this is backed up by the "White
Supremacist" Court. And please note: as of this writing, no significant
Republican or Democratic politician has denounced this open call for
white supremacist intimidation and terror for what it is and the
forceful terms it demands. No, all they mount against Trump are weak
cries that the system is "fair."
When Trump says that the system is "rigged" it strikes
a chord with some. In fact, the system works the way it is supposed to
work: to keep people confused and powerless. The howling irony in all
this is that the racist, sexist, xenophobic, money-grubbing asshole
Trump himself is a product and beneficiary of how the system works. The
capitalist-imperialists who rule society are the ones who determine and
dictate who gets a hearing... what gets debated... which terms get set.
They determine the choices that we get. They may fight among themselves
over this, as they are now, but the terms of this fight is confined
within the framework of what is best for this system. Enough of them
wanted Trump out there to win him the nomination; and even those who
didn't, including the Democrats, never denounced him and what he stood
for as utterly illegitimate and reactionary. This system is not
"rigged"--in the sense that Trump means it--it is illegitimate, and
Trump himself is Exhibit A. This guarantees that whoever wins, be it
Clinton or Trump, will fight for the interests of this system as he or
she (and the people around them) see those interests. So again, that is
not rigging--that is how the system works... and why it must be
overthrown.
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