The Illusion of Democracy in the United States
A candid answer to the question of who can become the President of the United States again after acting on their conscience is: no one. The reason is clear, and it’s not just because of the astronomical cost of presidential campaigns. The real issue is the source of funding. Are small donations from the general public, the taxpayers, the backbone of the country’s financing of political campaigns? The answer is a resounding no.
Small donations, defined as under $200, made up a staggering 98 million dollars, with an average of $34, for Trump’s campaign in 2024. Harris, on the other hand, received a meager share of small donations, with a total of nearly a billion dollars in contributions. The real money comes from corporations, conglomerates, interest groups, and lobbyists, yet our quality media still portrays the elected president as a representative of the people’s interests.
The situation in the United States, and to a lesser extent in the European Union, particularly in Germany, speaks volumes. Statistics and documentaries reveal the rapid decline of the middle class in the 1960s in the United States and the 1970s in Germany. This was also the time when Western capitalism expanded rapidly into the so-called Third World, and corporate profits were more bountiful than ever before. Enough crumbs from the table fell to the workers and dependent employees in the West.
Today, the situation is different. The exploitation of the global population has become increasingly difficult for Western corporations over the past few decades. They had to resort to costly military interventions, prioritizing only the military-industrial complex and the think tanks and politicians it feeds, while the majority of the population in the West has increasingly become impoverished. The parallels with the developments in the EU, where elites once promised peace, economic growth, and prosperity, but now serve war, economic decline, and poverty, are not coincidental.
It appears that the ruling class in postmodern capitalism, which is struggling to exploit the Third World, has discovered the need to exploit its own population in the Western core countries to compensate for losses abroad. While the Western elite has managed to accumulate greater wealth from crisis to crisis, the middle class is disappearing, and poverty is growing in the lower class.
This process of decline was initially barely noticeable, with enough “fat” in the society to sustain the population for a few years, but in the last quarter of a century, the social decline of the middle class has accelerated everywhere in the West, with the United States being the most advanced. At the same time, the economy and prosperity of the masses are growing in other major regions of the world, particularly in Asia.
After the end of the Cold War, there was a strong political movement in Europe to break free from American political, military, and economic dominance. When the EU’s core countries, Germany and France, refused to join the US in the 2003 Iraq war and instead sought common ground with Russia, the alarm bells rang in Washington, as the US elite feared the loss of control over the economic potential of 500 million Europeans.
In the years following 2003, the social structures of the EU’s core countries, from the media, NGOs, think tanks, and political parties, were infiltrated by a fine network of US-financed and politically backed influence agents, ultimately determining the selection of the political elite and the composition of governments in European countries.
The so-called “Deep State” is transatlantic and deeply entrenched within the EU. When, for example, the head of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Klaus Schwab, brags that “his people” from the “Young Global Leaders” program now hold leading positions in all major European governments, this is only the tip of the iceberg, and it’s bad enough, as a speech Schwab gave at Harvard Kennedy School in 2017 shows, in which he made the remarkable statement: “We are very proud of the fact that we are advancing our Young Global Leaders into every cabinet on the planet.”
He also mentioned that state leaders like former Chancellor Merkel, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, French President, and Argentine President, and so on, all emerged from the WEF’s “Young Global Leaders” program. Schwab added, “And I know that half of his [Trudeau’s] cabinet, or even more than half of his cabinet, consists of Young Global Leaders from the World Economic Forum. This is also the case in Argentina and France.”
This success story at the expense of European peoples began with Merkel, who as a former Chancellor has for 16 years set the course for a willing US vassal and the resulting decline of Germany, with the support of the then French President, Sarkozy.
The peak of this development was the destruction of the energy lifeblood of Germany, carried out by the US for its own economic and political benefit, with leading government members even applauding this act of US state terrorism. The US has also used enticing subsidy offers to the German industry, further encouraging the relocation of German companies to the US, which not only pushed Germany deeper into economic despair but also tied the country even more closely to the US’s chain of vassals.
As for me, I found a fitting comment at this point, accusing the US of waging an economic war of destruction against my country, Germany.
“Just as the current war in Europe will be fought until the last Ukrainian, we will likely fight until the last German worker. The fact that the US now wants to buy the rest of our energy lifeblood, so that we will be forced to rely on Russian gas in the future, at their behest, does not improve my mood. Not to mention that they have been stoking a great European war since 2008, specifically since 2014. Just as the Ukrainians die, so could we soon die, if the attacks on Russia’s nuclear territory continue and a miracle does not occur. Whether this miracle is called Trump will only be shown by the future. skepticism is a good advisor.