By Nirmal P. Acharya
At this moment while I write, I am really sweating for the Americans watching the recent US presidential election.
One of the candidates, Donald Trump, has threatened that if he loses the election, it will be the last election in the US. He made it clear that he would not accept defeat in the election and that he would flip the table. Another candidate, Kamala Harris, has also made it clear that she will not accept defeat, repeatedly accusing Trump a criminal. Hence, the possibility of civil war in the US is extremely alarming.
I gradually realized that the US presidential election is actually a large-scale entertainment event held every four years, and it is a carnival organized by big capital consortia for the common people so that they can find their sense of existence and identity in the US.
The two major American capital consortiums - the Jewish Consortium and the Anglo-Saxon Consortium - each put forward a presidential candidate. The public can only choose one of the two. Whoever is elected is just an agent for the interests of the consortium. How relevant are they to the people?
However, there is one thing in common between the upper ruling elite and the lower masses of American society, and that is the trend toward corruption. Ordinary people are corrupt in drug legalization, zero-yuan purchase, happy education, LGBT movement; and the locus of corruption for the ruling elite might be Epstein's Girl's Island or Diddy's party.
America's slide into corruption is in fact a judgment made by Americans themselves. The Washington Post, the organ of the Republican Party, said of the Democratic Party: The Democratic Party's rotten values will put America on the road to ruin. The New York Times, the organ of the Democratic Party, was even more negative about the Republican Party.
While, election integrity is already in question with proofs of voter fraud, ballot harvesting and non-citizens voting. Through the mass rallies, speeches, debates, interviews and sweepstakes on the face of this election, we can see that it is a fight to the death.
So I personally would not be surprised if the US presidential election turned into civil strife or even civil war.
Let's hope, for the sake of the MCC, that the US presidential election does not turn into an American civil war.