[lbo-talk] Comments on NY Times editorial: Donald Trump Attacks Democracy Itself

Mark Wain wtkh at comcast.net
Thu Oct 20 16:37:03 PDT 2016


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/opinion/donald-trump-attacks-democracy-its elf.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/opinion/donald-trump-attacks-democracy-it self.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span -abc-region&region=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region&_r=0>

"Donald Trump Attacks Democracy Itself." Correction: D.J.T. attacks false democracy while true democracy or what the rebels in the 18th century in this country recognized has been sabotaged upon by "god of money" or capital for more than 140 years. He is not alone on this. Several tens of millions of voters agree with him on the fact that the system is rigged by the establishment and their capital owner by usurping the name of democracy to strike a blow against anyone who dares to question or pinpoint its wrongdoing in usurpation of state power let alone to rebel as D.J.T. has done. His attack on "the very foundation of the republic, the American tradition of peacefully transferring power" represents a revolutionary act to reclaim the state power from the corrupted and autocratic establishment on behalf of the people's sovereignty. Peaceful transferring power must be done under true people's democracy whereas that under establishment's autocratic "democracy" is unacceptable.

No one can "talk down democracy" when and if it is truly a people's rather than a Democratic/Republican duopoly masquerading as democracy which has sped up telling its falsehood as tens of millions of people recognize where rubber meets the road. They have realized that ever-increasingly big and dark money have rigged the system to such an extent that the election of a fraud-ridden darling of the establishment that people have scorned for wrongdoing to the office simply is defying people's democratic power.

When the establishment juggernaut has so rigged the system again and again by literally using capital as a social relation and state as the supreme political power for dictating a clean sweep for its desired outcome of the electoral extravaganza, voting masses for the establishment are the ultimate losers because they serve the establishment as accessories who advantage its wrongdoing legitimacy without end.

Under precarious conditions of development, capital has acquired state as its protector as well as its property and state has increasingly become so impudent as to do its bidding. The two handle people and their democratic rights with a velvet glove - to snooker them by a lot of malarkey about so-called democracy, i.e. to con them into believing the system remains as democratic as in the Revolutionary America 240 years ago while hiding their iron hand - to run the system into rampant corruption everywhere before their sands are running out - "an attack on our democracy itself." When H.R.C. cried against D.J.C.: "That's horrifying," she of course forgot how horrified people were to hear the news that the state apparatuses such as the F.B.I., D.O.J. and State Department have vindicated, inter alia, her email scandal under the "impartial" leadership of Obama and Biden. It is indeed unprecedented that the state turns the tight corner for a candidate in order to let her be voted in office. The state has run itself down by blaming Russia without evidence for WikiLeaks posting her fraud and scandals almost daily. Her state-sponsored election to presidency is worse than that in a most backward country.

So much for the American democracy which is now or never!

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