After months of performative electioneering with choreographed audiences and celebrity endorsements, the multi-billion dollar U.S. election is over.
Billed as the most important election of all time, the Australian people were subjected to a media onslaught with 24-hour coverage. The swooning lackey media and commentariat rushing to the U.S, spraying us with dire predictions and time filling trivia.
Once the winner was announced, Australian politicians fell over themselves to ingratiate themselves to the Trump camp, Albanese deleting an earlier media comment:
“He (Trump) scares the sh*t out of me and I think it’s of some concern the leader of the free world thinks that you can conduct politics through 140 characters on Twitter overnight.”
Astonishingly, all talk of gloom vanished and was replaced by glowing reports of the “health of American democracy”.
Phone calls and messages from Australia assured our new masters of loyalty and the continuity of military alliances.
Let’s remember the real winners were the billionaires (800 in the USA) and trillionaires who are lining up for action. At the front is Elon Musk but the rest waiting in the wings.
In Michael West Media, (November 7) Marcus Reubenstein wrote,
Some weeks ago, CEO of private equity behemoth BlackRock, Larry Fink, speaking at a conference “It really doesn’t matter” who wins the U.S. presidential election. Fink reiterated his point, saying, “We work with both administrations and are having conversations with both candidates”.
Last month, BlackRock announced its total assets under management reached $A17.6 trillion, up from $A13.9 trillion the previous year. Comparing this to global GDP, only the U.S. and China have economies larger than BlackRock’s assets; its assets are 6.4 times the value of Australia’s economy.
The fact that capital is running the U.S. has real impact on Australia, 25.1 percent of foreign investment in Australia comes from the U.S.,
That’s now how things work, the all-powerful cartel of billionaires, private equity and investment banks in the U.S. don’t talk to the government and ask for things to get done; the government goes to them to be told what to do.
So, the gloves are off for a naked unashamed business USA without the sugar dusting of the Biden or Obama regimes.
The task ahead for the Australian people is to unite to push back against the U.S. hegemon. This means resisting AUKUS, removing Pine Gap and all foreign bases and developing a broad liberation movement for a democratic peoples’republic of Australia.
