A Beautiful Dream or a Nightmare

It rather looks as if the old adage might come true: The best way to destroy a country is to let it choose its own government. It could happen in the United States if the choice in November is reduced to a misogynous magnate (Donald Trump) or the lady with the devil’s smile (Hillary Clinton). Trump aims to demonstrate that money can buy anything, even the presidency of the most powerful empire in history; Clinton, that her election is predetermined by the fact that she represents the interests of big banking, the military-industrial complex, the mainstream press and the security agencies, and because she is backed by the tremendous stupidity of a mass consciousness that allows itself to be won over with false promises.

Should either be elected, the people of the world will pay dearly for the American people’s defeat, which they will share, because they, too, will be massacred when they protest and serve as cannon fodder in future military interventions. In a nutshell, they will suffer hugely when they wake up to the harsh reality.

Bernie Sanders is the candidate who would avert this catastrophe by representing the interests of the American people and, in doing so, those of the whole world, instead of those of Wall Street, the military-industrial complex and Israeli pressure groups.

Behind his candidacy are workers disillusioned at having to work ever more hours each day for ever-decreasing wages, those who have lost their homes as a result of the crisis, students with ever-increasing college debts and no jobs when they graduate, the jobless obliged to beg for their daily bread, African-Americans shot down like dogs, women struggling on unequal pay, war veterans lacking proper care despite having been maimed in the defense of the spurious interests of the great multinationals, and migrants without any kind of security. In other words, the exploited, the poor and the dispossessed who are not content to see 99 percent of the profits generated in their country end up in the pockets of the richest 1 percent. This huge disproportion is debilitating and harmful to Americans’ spiritual sensibilities. According to Sanders, “We cannot continue to have a country that has the highest childhood poverty rate of any major country on earth at the same time as a proliferation of millionaires and multimillionaires. … That type of economy is not only immoral and wrong, it is unsustainable.”* Therefore, he concludes, “It is imperative that the Democratic leadership, at national and state level, understands that the political world is changing and that millions of Americans are indignant at the dirty politics and the establishment’s economic policies.”*

Sanders ought to win the presidential election because he is the best candidate and plays no part in what he calls “casino capitalism, under which so few have so much and the vast majority have so little.” He is also the only candidate who can give his country a last chance at the kind of political change, in foreign as well as domestic policy, that could prevent America from turning into a failed democracy and allowing the huge contradictions at its heart to lead its society along a path to disintegration as a nation.

*Editor’s note: The original quotation, accurately translated, could not be verified.