Dissecting the US Election

The United States is a complex country. Its magic lies in its military, marketing and entertainment powers which help to cover up the lagging ideologies and outdated culture and, indeed, have allowed the U.S. to rise to the top. As an antagonistic country, it has not learned how to live and grow without war. It started with eliminating Native Americans and then by invading a long, almost endless, list of countries. They use the words “democracy” and “freedom” and one phrase: Manifest Destiny. For the United States, its military forces destroy countries and eliminate civilizations. However, from the outside, we continue to see it as the American dream. Paradise. But if you thoroughly study the Americans, their history is full of cruelty, wickedness and death. Poverty is used to create a script where in the end, everyone can be wealthy and all it takes is boldness, religious faith and political trust. And money is God.

In the early days, Mexico was America’s favorite victim. The historian Gastón García Cantú and the little-known Mario Gill studied in detail the U.S. assaults on their territory. Today, they don’t even have to step foot on Mexican soil to attack or control it. We loathe them, but still our plans are, for the highly cultured, a trip to New York City or Washington to see the remarkable museums, or if you are on a budget, to Las Vegas or Orlando, the nearby shopping havens. Their best persuasive tool is not great literature and art, it is film and media.

Today, the electoral process reveals America’s most obvious flaws. It is racist, and Latinos have taken the place of African-Americans and Jews. It is a country of immigrants, but it no longer tolerates them while championing a prototypical American hero: Donald Trump. He will not win the election over a woman (the first) who will wind up in the White House for a second time; once as the first lady and now as president. But Trump’s campaign has given us a look into the depths of this fascinating country: racism and patriotism at any cost.

It is almost certain that Clinton will go down in history as the first woman to reach such an important position and will, in fact, govern the world. This will be a stroke of luck for the planet. She is educated, resourceful, and empathetic, and although it will not radically change the country where a fascist like Trump has millions of followers, as many as the National Rifle Association and the Hollywood film scene has, she will hold the country’s reins, and all the more so if there is a congressional majority. In any case, it is a daunting task and we are headed in a new direction.

At the international level, globalization is in crisis. It has lost the magic its creators gave it, having eliminated the communist “danger.” Through negotiations, the U.S. has to wrap up, for the time being, the atrocious hornet’s nest it made in the battered and destroyed Middle East that is now the main theme of the film. The only thing missing is a superhero like Superman or Batman to put everything back together. We must not forget that even Tarzan fought against the Nazis during World War II. Cinematography is a factory of illusions, good and bad, but it usually makes fools out of us. Only on television, in the final years of McCarthyism, can a single combat battalion destroy the Germans without ever taking into account that the Red Army eliminated the backbone of Hitler’s power. They paid a ghastly price in bloodshed, and suffered a much greater slaughter with tragic consequences which devastated their most important cities.

Clinton holds the keys to improving the United States. The U.S. can no longer be the world’s policeman. That the country will fill up with immigrants is to be expected, since each time soldiers invade and destroy a country, they use propaganda to invite those who want to be free men and women to come to the United States and rebuild their lives. Just recently, Asians and Latinos made the journey by sea. Since being “freed” by Fidel Castro and company, hordes of wealthy, anti-communists fled from Cuba to form the core of the new, professional anti-communism. Ex-Cubans will, sooner or later, leave Miami to reorganize the island after it is freed from Castro’s communism.

It is not easy to improve the economy and social conditions in the United States. Neither will it be easy to get rid of basic contradictions and regain international prestige without killing or torturing (Guantánamo) Muslims, at the very least. But it is much more likely that Clinton will try to move forward without military intervention.

There is not enough time imaginable for the United States to apologize for its brutal excesses, as there is no country that has not been wronged by their arrogance. But if militarism gives way, if the immense military power looks for other ways to rebuild the world in its likeness, it will achieve better results, less devastation, and less bloodshed. Communism is no longer a threat to anyone and there is a natural process of reorganization at the global level. The world has grown tired of utopias and projects of domination. The old systems need time to collapse before a new harmonious and positive world order emerges , just as people are looking for in the most developed countries such as France, Great Britain, Spain, and the majority of the Middle East. And also in Mexico.