The outcome of the supposedly critical and democratic elections in the US will be known shortly. In fact, however, the elections are neither critical nor democratic in any sense of the word. * They are not critical, because they are not going to herald any significant change in the domestic or foreign policy of the US, whichever party eventually wins. * They are not democratic, because the electoral result is always - particularly in the US - the outcome of the manipulation of the public by the elites and the mass media they control, while almost half the electorate (mainly the lower social strata) usually does not even bother to take part in the voting process not expecting any significant change out of it.What is interesting in these elections, therefore, is not their probable outcome but the political stand of the American, and generally the reformist, Left with respect to these elections.
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