Cui prodest America's burning?
So Uncle Donald's ace in the hole is this: to create a climate of social and racial exasperation in the country to push the frightened middle class to vote him as guarantor of order.
As an unscrupulous man, he does not care that the situation becomes serious to the point of risking a civil war, he only looks at his electoral advantage. The formidable presidential propaganda machine (a thing that Trump knows how to make work well and in which he invests without limits) not only flanks, but feeds the news, clearly providing the reference points for all the madmen and fanatics who haunt the streets of America.
Twelve years ago, on the other side of the ocean where I find myself, I looked at the United States with hope and admiration. What for us Europeans of a certain generation has always been an example and a model, despite many contradictions, was about to make an epochal choice, that of electing the first African-American president in history. It was not an easy and linear path, but full of pitfalls, as well as the 8 years that followed. But nothing could suggest that they would lead to the state we are in now, faced with an equally (and perhaps even more) epochal choice.
America is really at a crossroads, confirming a president who in his lucid madness is about to complete his plan, that of establishing a regime based on fear and reaction to fear, or returning to normality. It can interrupt a spiral of violence with an unpredictable future, and resume the path of dialogue, progress, defense of the rights of the weakest.
America can break the bond that clearly unites this kind of “International Fear System”, to which well-known personalities join, protagonists of similar rise-to-power processes in so many countries of the world, all pointing towards the same goal: to establish a personalistic regime, authoritarian, repressive, disrespectful of minorities and in favor of inequalities. Today, as twelve years ago, America is an example for us Europeans and for the whole world. Stopping this spiral is a huge undertaking that has value not only for the United States of America, but for all humanity.
I know that you who are reading this are doing everything to ensure that these elections are not a missed opportunity, but I urge you to do even more, if possible.
Don't give up, but keep your mind clear.
I am 60 years old, I have entered that phase of life in which sleep is restless, dreams are short-lived, and in no time they become nightmares. Four more years of Trump is a nightmare I don't want to live.
