Donald Trump has second-tier multi-billionaires behind him who are active in the US, as well as new aggressive Silicon Valley investors. Kamala Harris has the globally active digital, defence, energy and agro-corporations behind her. Both are dangerous for the whole world.

Assassination attempt on Trump: Biden finally resigns

President Joe Biden of the Democratic Party had declared himself the candidate for the next election. His senile, stuttering appearance with Trump at the TV debate on June 27 made it clear: that's not how it works. But only “the Almighty” could stop him from running again, according to Biden. So the Almighty sent 20-year-old high school graduate Thomas Crooks. He had bought the heavy semi-automatic AR 15 rifle from his father, bought ammunition and a ladder and was able to calmly climb onto a nearby roof at the venue and shoot at Trump past the secret service.

But Crooks' bullet only caught Trump on the ear, because Trump as ex-US president also has the Almighty with him. The secret service immediately shot the shooter dead, the head of the secret service immediately resigned. The Almighty was satisfied, the world of US-led capitalism was back in God-given order. So Biden finally could withdrew from the candidacy and named his Vice President as candidate. The establishment members of the Democratic Party were redeemed, as were their supporters in the European Union and NATO member states.

So the staging was quickly changed: Harris as the younger one – as opposed to Trump, whose age is now the problem; and Harris as a woman – as opposed to the macho Trump. The millions in donations flowed from super-rich women, including Laurene Jobs, widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, and Sheryl Sandberg, ex-head of Facebook/Meta. And there are also influential men, such as Michael Pyle from BlackRock and Brad Smith from Microsoft. And in all of these companies, today's largest capital organizers BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, Wellington, Capital Group & Co. are among the leading shareholders.

Harris: “Unwritten page” becomes a “bringer of joy”

As Biden's running mate, Harris had won votes in the 2020 election with critical issues: she defended abortion, criticized environmentally harmful fracked natural gas, and powerful digital corporations. But then as the incumbent vice president, none of that remained. The Democratic-leaning New York Times described Harris as a “blank slate” now at the start of her candidacy.

This is how the “blank slate” is re-described by highly paid PR consultants. The song Freedom by pop icon Beyoncé was made Harris' leading anthem. Harris' typical broad laugh has been stylized into a campaign logo: the “laughing fighter” is now “leading America forward into the future” – against the backward-looking bleakness projected onto Trump.

Harris’ running mate Walz: gun carrier, guaranteed non-leftist

Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate. He should not be associated with the liberal urban milieu of San Francisco and California, denounced by Trump as “left-wing,” where Harris rose to prominence. And Walz was the least known of the possible candidates – the second blank slate.

Harris praises her running mate as a well-married husband and father of two, a high school social studies teacher who coached and led the school's soccer team to success. Before that, he served 24 years in the National Guard. A gun owner, he loves to hunt turkeys and pheasants. His previous election campaigns have earned him an A rating from the US gun lobby, the influential National Rifle Association (NRA).

The assured non-leftist is expected to win working-class votes, including in rural areas, as he represents a state in the US Congress that is dominated by agriculture.

Trump sponsors: multi-billionaires, evangelicals

Donald Trump, a multi-billionaire, represents US multi-billionaires who, like him, belong to the second league of US capitalists. They are only present within the US territory. One of the companies that donated some million dollars at the start of the election campaign is Uline, a family-owned packaging and logistics company with 10,000 employees at 13 US locations. Ex-wrestler Vince McMahon is also among the major donors: he became a billionaire with World Wrestling Entertainment and now runs the consultant company McMahon Ventures. Steve Wynn runs casinos in Las Vegas. GH Palmer specializes in luxury real estate.

Trump has been associated with evangelicals for some time: they save poor souls for Christ and at the same time for “America” by fighting for sexual purity and against abortion and immigrants. Evangelical leader Franklin Graham proves to be generous: he forgives the macho Trump for all his sexual escapades and also knows that Trump was “saved by God” in the assassination attempt.

Trump: The Big Money from the Israel lobby, number 2

For the Trump election campaign the big money comes from the Israel lobby division that specializes in the Republican Party:

Trump's and Vance's new Silicon Valley sponsors

In recent years, Trump's supporters have gradually been joined by the younger Silicon Valley generation, such as Tesla and Space X boss Elon Musk and hedge fund investor Peter Thiel, financier of PayPal and the spy company Palantir (facial recognition, especially of Muslims who want to enter the USA).

The 40-year-old J.D. Vance, Trump's running mate, was successful as a venture investor, was supported by Thiel, then also for Vance's election campaign as a senator. Vance criticizes, based on facts, that the Democrats in the government have helped to outsource millions of jobs since the 1990s, impoverishing the US working class. And that the USA has lost prestige with unsuccessful wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine and has also damaged allies such as Germany. Most Americans do not want this policy. Vance is certainly right.

Trump versus Harris: similarities prevail

Harris/Walz and Trump/Vance insult each other personally. This is supposed to get a lot of likes on “social” media. But the similarities are far greater.

The USA: The military world leader with the greatest wealth

“America First” (Trump) and “God's Own Country” (Harris): these are two variants of the God-ordained world leadership of military-backed US capital. Harris/Walz want to preserve this state in the interests of Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Lockheed, Boeing, Pfizer, JP Morgan, and their leading shareholders BlackRock & Co. Trump/Vance want to “restore” it (“Make America great again”) in the interests of the smaller and younger, not yet so powerful multi-billionaires. Harris said it most directly in her keynote speech at the Democratic convention in Chicago: “America will always be the strongest, deadliest fighting force in the world!”

Working class: left behind by both parties, impoverished

Both capitalist parties are at their lowest level of approval since the post-war period. Above all, they no longer reach dependent employees and the working class; leftists, socialists and communists are opposed by both parties, the Republicans and the Democrats – in the last presidential election, for example, the leftist Bernie Sanders was eliminated by the Democratic establishment, the Obamas and the Clintons, also with the approval of Harris. So, in the 2022 nationwide election, 258 million Americans were over the voting age of 18: only 112 million voted.

Illegal immigration: controlled by both parties

Both parties fight illegal immigration, they claim. But both in government simultaneously promote letting in millions of illegals who are blackmailed into cheap labor and are an important pillar of the US economy. But the Democrats also promote the geopolitics of modernized slave labour, combined with racism: digital corporations such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Uber are looking for migrants, legalized and illegal, as low-wage workers who can be extorted – in the USA, but also worldwide, especially in “Factory Asia,” in Taiwan, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines.

The difference between Trump and Harris is that the Republicans and their billionaires use low-wage labour primarily in the USA itself, while the Democrats with their globalizing corporations and capital organizers such as BlackRock use low-wage labour primarily in other countries, especially in poor and oligarchy-controlled countries like India.

China: Trumps wants sanctions and tariffs, Harris wants sanctions, tariffs and military

Both parties criticize China as main enemy, sometimes both say not enemy but rival. Trump as president started with sanctions, Biden/Harris continued. One difference lies in the level of tariffs. But the main difference is the following: Trump wants to fight China primarily economically, through sanctions and tariffs by the US. Harris, in the tradition of the Democratic Party, wants to expand global and regional alliances against China, and not only economically but also militarily.

War in Ukraine: Harris wants to continue, Trumps wants to stop

The Trump billionaires are not represented as leading shareholders in arms and energy companies and earn nothing from wars. Harris wants to continue the war in Ukraine, Trump wants to end it as quickly as possible.

Trump and Harris: Israel's wars should continue

Both Trump and Harris blindly support Israel. The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) brings in the big money for Trump. But the other Zionist lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which funds and influences the Democratic Party, was founded three decades before the RJC, in 1953, and is richer and more influential than the RJC.

The Biden administration with Vice Harris here has swung to Trump/Netanyahu.

Trump as US president:

This has been continued by the current successor government with President Biden and Vice President Harris. Although Harris now laments the “terrible victims” in the Gaza war, she continues to support the racist Netanyahu government, US arms supplies and US intelligence aid for Israel's war of annihilation and expulsion in Gaza.

This is why the New York Times is campaigning for Harris, but points out the “high emotional and political price”: “Those who want to prevent Trump and vote for Harris must pay an extremely high emotional price and muster an unbearable degree of cynicism.”

“Unbearable degree of cynicism”

Out of self-respect alone, the great “rest” of the world, to the extent that it has not already done so, must free itself from complicity with this deadly, racist, inhuman cynicism.

Even the Harris supporter New York Times, the leading US media with 9.6 million subscribers points out the “intolerability” of this cynicism. So – make it intolerable! Worldwide! Let's not put up with it! Not only in the Arab world, on all continents, in the USA itself, but also in EU and NATO countries such as England, Ireland and Spain, criticism has grown.

There is no reasonable choice between the two leading capitalist parties in the USA. There can be no support for either of these parties. Let us join this new awakening of anti-racism, peace, multipolarity, democracy, international law and human rights – including labour and social rights!

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