''Hillary Clinton is the political mask of the corporate face of America,
but Donald Trump is the real deal''.
A spectre is hovering high over the
United States - the spectre of a Trump presidency. All the elders of the
Republican Party have now entered into a frightful alliance to disown and
exorcise this spectre. But the goblin listens to no one, as millions of
xenophobic, angry, "poorly educated" (as Trump proudly calls his own
supporters), mostly white men and women storm around him, raising their right
hands "Sieg Heil" style and pledging allegiance.
"In an extraordinary display of
Republican chaos," CNN reports, "the
party's most recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, lambasted
current frontrunner Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him unfit for office and
a danger for the nation and the GOP [Grand Old Party]."
The cause for fear is self-evident:
"GOP hawks declare war on Trump," according to reports,
"Prominent Republican hawks are debating whether to hold their noses and
vote for Clinton instead."
Corporate skin, political masks
What is the difference between Trump
and Clinton? This is the critical question the US voters face this year, but
not the world at large, for which Trump promises to do more of what Clinton and
all Democrat and Republican presidents before her have already done and
continue to do to the world.
The difference between Trump and
Clinton is the difference between commodity and branding. Trump is the real
face of corporate America, Clinton its mask. In choosing Donald Trump,
Americans are choosing corporate America instead of its representative Hillary
Clinton. Donald Trump is the real deal, Hillary Clinton is the camouflage.
Why buy the stooge of corporate
America, Donald Trump supporters are effectively asking, when the real deal,
their preferred candidate, is on sale?
This is a decisive moment because the
fake facade of US politics is finally falling down and the naked truth of
corporate reality running this show reveals its naked fascistic face for the
whole world to see.
A demagogue salesman is appealing to
the basest instinct of US consumers, to the very logic of US capitalism run
amuck.
His supporters have been trained
Pavlovian dog-style for Trump from birth and now instinctively each time they
push a cart down the supermarket isle hunt for the cheapest product on
sale. Trump is the cheapest product on sale.
Naked fascism
The naked fascism that Trump flaunts
today has always been there but hidden behind the mask of politics-as-usual;
hidden behind smiling faces, false promises, gaudy oratorical speeches, the
kissing of frightened babies, the shaking of insincere hands, while hiding the
terror of global warfare, drone attacks, special forces, secret kill lists, CIA
torture chambers.
A consensus is now building in the US
that the Trump presidency is so dangerous Democrats and Republicans should
unite to prevent it by electing Hillary Clinton. But what exactly is the
difference between a Clinton and a Trump presidency for the world at large?
The prospect of a Trump presidency is
only frightful if you think Hillary Clinton's record of warmongering around the
world - from Iraq to Libya to her threatening Iran
with annihilation - is a stellar record of high-minded and competent diplomacy.
Americans have every reason to fear a
Trump presidency, but the world at large has not an iota of reason to believe
Clinton would be any better. Trump is promising to deliver to Americans a dose
of what Clinton, her husband, the current US president, and all the Republicans
and Democrat presidents before him have administered to the world at large.
Now suddenly these Republicans are
scared of fascism. They did not worry about fascism when they produced George W
Bush, who wreaked havoc on Afghanistan and Iraq and set in motion a criminal
catastrophe that has now resulted in murderous mayhem raging from Iraq to
Syria.
But now that Trump appears to threaten
their entire party apparatus suddenly they worry about fascism. Fascism arrived
and wreaked havoc from one end of the globe to another by these very Republican
cons and neocons a very long time ago.
Xenophobia is on sale
Clinton has a proven record of
murderous warmongering on a par with any Republican warmonger. Donald Trump
only promises to do more of what she has done. He has no record of any such
atrocities as yet.
He, in fact, has occasionally condemned
both the Afghan and Iraq invasions, and on Israeli murderous records he has
declared himself agnostic and neutral, even daring to suggest that Israel is
not sincere in its claim to be peaceful. And, contrary to Clinton, he is not in
any billionaire Zionist's deep pocket and has not written and signed a pledge
of allegiance to those hell-bent on stealing the entirety of Palestine no
matter what the cost to Palestinian lives and Liberty.
Yes, indeed, the horrors of Trump's
xenophobic racism and misogyny against Mexicans, Muslims, women etc is
abominable, but we know all this because he is not a seasoned politician and
has not learned how to conceal and camouflage his racism.
When Clinton's guard was down and she
did not realise the cameras were rolling, she too called young
African Americans "super-predators" who had to be "brought to
heel".
She is the same person - only now she
has learned how to camouflage her racism. Trump has not mastered that art.
Trump has a different product to sell - himself - and has targeted a different
market - white supremacists basking in their racism. The salesman is naked in
his fascism, the politician is properly dressed in socially acceptable
verbiage.
In choosing Trump over Clinton,
Americans are opting to buy the real product instead of a badly packaged
camouflage representation of that product.
Clinton is the political mask of the
corporate face of America, and this time around Americans wish to see the real
face of their government, the rule of corporate America, and not some corrupt politician
being funded by them to represent that face with a mask of fair play and warm
wishes.
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