‘ Hillary Clinton & Donald Trump: Two Cheeks of the Same Arse?’ by Donal Lavery

When asked about the key differences between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, George Galloway replied that both were simply two cheeks of a Neo-liberal backside, despite an inclination to side with the left cheek. Never was there a more appropriate metaphor for the two mainstream candidates fighting the US Presidential election. The establishment parties have managed to find and stand two people who are among the most hated and disrespected from the entire US political and corporate scene.

I’ve been talking to people and they have asked whether I would vote for Clinton, as the lesser of the two evils. To which I state that I definitely wouldn’t and here’s why – Hillary Clinton’s illegal and imperial foreign policy would render any credibility she may have in her domestic agenda totally void in the minds of progressive minded people. Donald Trump has obscene views on many things and his Thatcherite domestic agenda would lay waste to what public services and infrastructure America has left, but his isolationist foreign policies are actually common sense on some issues – like making peace with Russia. Unlike Clinton, he is not owned and in dealings with Israel and Mossad.

Hillary Clinton has been fuelled, financed and propagated by the blood money of Zionist terrorists and Saudi fascists, who know that she will do everything she can to inhibit any development of a Palestinian state. When pressed by Bernie Saunders during the debates on this, she wouldn’t even admit that Israel can overreact militarily in its relations with Arab neighbours. This woman is simply what the corporate world deem the “acceptable” face of market forces and neo-liberalism, a vulture capitalist’s proverbial “wet dream” so to speak. On most of the big issues, she is to the right of Margaret Thatcher and most of the figures in the UK Conservative Party are wholeheartedly supporting her election. So do you really think, given her geo-political alliances and prostituting her soul to the Demi-Gods on Wall Street, that she’s going to be remotely left wing or progressive?

Let’s look a bit more at her record, which some SDLP folk are applauding – She advocated for the sanctions regime which slaughtered a million Iraqi children; She was the chief cheerleader for the Iraq war, when most of the public who haven’t had her expensive education were able to figure out that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction (otherwise they wouldn’t have invaded it, duh!); She destroyed Libya and advanced the destruction of Iraq to please the AIPAC lobby who bequeath her an electioneering fortune; She and her husband have used public office to vastly enrich themselves beyond comparison, with some of the most lucrative contracts in the corporate world that make up their private business affairs; Many issues of equality, like same-sex marriage, were opposed by Hillary Clinton for decades until now they are the popular thing; She has advocated throughout her career for policies and a brutal regime which has confined millions of African-American people into privately owned prisons for the most basic of offences, backing a quasi-paramilitary police force that persecutes them; She believes it appropriate that Russia be removed from the Human Rights Committee at the UN while the tyrannical regime (which beheads feminists, gay people and other women) of Saudi Arabia chairs it; She advocates for open confrontation with Russia because Putin will not allow US corporations to steal any more of Russia’s wealth and national assets, while also opposing any cooperation with Russia in fighting ISIS in Syria while at the same time backing the Iraqi regime to fight them there; Additionally, she has accepted a fortune from the crooks and fraudsters on Wall Street, who are not going to fund a candidate that will introduce the tax and regulation required to fund some of her more “liberal” spending projects.

Whatever your political persuasion, the evidence and charge sheet against this wicked and scheming woman has to render her void of any integrity. A vote for her is a vote for the status quo, and a world in flames. The lies simply drip
off of her lips and the establishment media, who are fully and indicatively behind her, do little by way of calling her out on it. How exactly is she going to do anything substantial to advance women’s rights when she is owned by the same economic and social system of class stratification which has inhibited women all this time and continues to do so? Sarah Palin is a woman, but that doesn’t and didn’t render her any more fit for office than Joe Biden. It’s a question of values, record and the integrity of saying what you mean and meaning what you say. Standing Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump is a mere establishment ploy to ensure that the overall economic debate and scope remains within the spectrum of centre-right to far right wing, as opposed to a real clash of ideas between left and right – as politics should be. Saunders Vs. Trump could have offered that choice.

But if Donald Trump wins this election, then the blame lies mainly with the leadership of the Democratic Party for revoltingly cheating Bernie Saunders out of the nomination, to gift the nation this rotten and shady figure of inequity. If I were living in the US, I would be voting for Dr. Jill Stein and working the shirt
off of my back to ensure Hillary Clinton is de-selected after four years as President, in place of a real Franklin Delano Roosevelt-type Democrat. Given that most of the best actors, writers, music artists and professionals, have been and are American, it reflects badly on such a formidable nation that they have to choose between a fool and a sinister knave.