Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2016

Trump Goes Even Further in Openly Rallying White Supremacist Fascists



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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