And so it happened.
United States President Joe Biden has dropped out of this year’s presidential race, bowing to pressure from fellow Democrats who feared that his disastrous performance in the June presidential debate with Republican candidate Donald Trump – among other episodes – would make the octogenarian less of appealing to the US electorate.
Biden’s decree is so much so that only the “Lord Almighty” could convince him to give up the race. Or maybe the Lord had a hand in it after all.
Admittedly, Biden’s Democratic colleagues were right – not that Trump or any other option, Republican or Democrat, is preferable in a committed plutocracy, where electoral choices generally range from the most transparently sociopathic to the least transparent.
But Biden’s recent verbal gaffes – including claims such as that he is the “first black woman to serve under a black president” in the US – suggested that he may not be properly positioned to continue as commander of the global, linguistic or media superpower. other way.
Also objectively speaking, his role for the past nine months as accomplice-in-chief in Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip is decidedly less than enchanting. But in his withdrawal from the July 21 presidential race publish on social media platform accessible to a record number of Americans.”
This may be news to many Americans who still struggle with medical bills and overpriced prescription medications. One of them would have been my own father, a Texas-born American citizen who died of prostate cancer in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., in August 2023, at age 72, after being lured into lucrative chemotherapy treatments by his doctors. , what did not happen. nothing more than to hasten his death.
Additionally, my father was prescribed the prostate cancer drug Xtandi, a drug that was developed with U.S. taxpayer money, but not for the purpose of, um, “reducing prescription drug costs for seniors” — as it turned out evident in my parents’ prohibition law. less than $14,579.01 for a single month’s supply of Xtandi.
Either way, for you this is US capitalism – which, regrettably, is not something that can be cured through a democratic electoral charade.
Biden’s likely replacement in the presidential race is his current vice president, Kamala Harris. While experts debate its merits in the mainstream media, the main question is precisely what will become of all the money raised in the name of one plutocrat and not another.
As an Al Jazeera article published after Biden’s withdrawal notes: “Unprecedented for the current situation, questions have arisen about the fate of Biden’s war fund. After all, in the US, electoral spending can amount to millions, if not billions, of dollars.”
With so many millions and billions floating around, then, there obviously isn’t much chance for a literal democracy. This is despite Biden’s sentimental statement in his post X that “none of this could have been done without you, the American people. Together, we overcame a once-in-a-century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We protect and preserve our Democracy.”
Although Biden is stepping back in his re-election bid, he is not resigning as president. He made it clear that he considers serving the remainder of his term to be “in the best interests of my party and the country” and that he will focus on his “duties as President”.
Among his main “duties” that currently require fulfillment is that of receiving the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the White House on Tuesday – since the genocide is certainly in the “best interests of my party and the country” .
As Americans process the entire electoral shift, they would do well to contemplate their country’s plutocratic landscape.
In his farewell letter, Biden signed off with the words: “I believe today what I have always believed: that there is nothing America cannot do – when we do it together. We just have to remember that we are the United States of America.”
And that’s what everyone should remember in the end: that the US is the US no matter who is in charge and that there is “nothing America can’t do” in terms of inflicting global agony.
Biden may be out of the race, but American “democracy” – that is, plutocracy – continues.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeera.
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