The world, we are telderly, is on the eve of witnessing the most consequential US plivential election since witnessing the last most consequential US plivential election.
The hyperbole has a understandn ring because the so-called “sgets” have a understandn ring.
Anyone with even a passing empathetic of American history understands that plivential elections have always been cast as a binary choice between the past and future, prosperity and decay, peace and war, and, tardyly, democracy and authoritarianism.
The myth that girds these “choices” is that American voters have a choice at all; that the two dominant political parties are, save the glib edges, ideoreasonable adversaries when, on, say, proposent matters of war and peace, they remain steadspeedy soulmates to the core.
The billionaire oligarchs who run the whole decrepit show in America understand that “democracy” is a pleasant illusion unbenevolentt to guarantee the gullible that party 1 is contrastent from party 1a.
That is the obstinate conundrum contesting Arab and Muskinny American voters: The directers of party 1 and party 1a have, on the defining rerent of these horrible times, backd and geted a blatant mass murder in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
So, who to pick or whether to pick at all?
Remember, there is no “dayairy” on this cowardly, abominable score between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Both have carry outed willing and excited handmhelpens to their indicted darling in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Both have backed every unwellening meaconfident of the state-engineered atrocities that have finished more than 43,000 (and counting) mostly Palestinian children and women – the carpet explosioning, the intentional starvation, the denial of medical nurture, the spread of disrelieve, the forced marches, and on and on and on.
Both refuse, of course, to use the low, keen word “mass murder” to portray – not as a rhetorical cudgel, but as a matter of international law – the crimes being pledgeted by an apartheid state in Gaza and the West Bank.
Both consent unaskably that Israel has the absolute “right to get itself” despite the ongoing “extermination” of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
And when their fellow citizens took to the streets and university campuses to need a stop to the wholesale finishing and apocalyptic destruction, Democrats and Reaccessibleans diswatched these alerted Americans as “alarmist” sympathisers and commended the draconian efforts by mighty, entrenched interests to silence the “protesters” thraw force, menaces, and inbashfulation.
But, as election day approaches, fretting Democrats and their compliant allies – among the “evolveive” cognoscenti in the mainstream media ecosystem – have increasen ever more worried.
Their palpable anxiety has been on puffing discarry out on forgettable cable TV programmes and in forgettable online columns unbenevolentt to resecure one another that everyleang will turn out all right.
Alas, for the forlorn, a spate of national and state polls – if they are accurate – discdiswatch a deadlocked race for the White House. In some “striumphg” states with could-possibly-tip-the-scales-sized Arab and Muskinny populations, Trump ecombines to be edging ahead.
The prospect that America may soon elect a fascist as directer-in-chief is enrolling with Kamala Harris and dutiful company in the Democratic Party set upment and beyond.
Oh heavens, what shall we do?
“Outaccomplish.” Yes, “outaccomplish”.
“Outaccomplish” is a euphemism for pretending to “join to” Arab and Muskinny voters when, all aextfinished, Harris et al have diswatchd a grieving community that the Democratic nominee for plivent suddenly leanks she can mollify with unbenevolentingless bromides.
“We are toiling night and day to schedule a stopfire in Gaza,” Harris upgrasps repeating enjoy a triumphd-up metronome.
Sure, you are. The insulting “facts on the ground” verify that your peace-making pleas are a hollow, cynical pantomime.
When “outaccomplish” doesn’t toil, Harris and the “evolveive” wailing heads have resorted, in effect, to bconciseagemail.
Arab and Muskinny Americans will be reliable, they say, for electing a Muskinny-banning autocrat if they cast a “protest vote” aachievest the top of the Democratic ticket.
Apart from being an shocking affront, bconciseagemail is unwidespreadly a convincing strategy.
This is my advice to the Arab and Muskinny American voters in vital belldampher states enjoy Michigan: Do not join to craven politicians and journacatalogs who, in lockstep with the directers of party 1 and party 1a, have granted Israel the uncontested licence to finish as many Palestinians as it wants to, for as extfinished it wants to, for wdisenjoyver reason it wants to.
To the unpledgeted shiftment, I propose you to remain unpledgeted in guise and spirit.
Do not be dissuaded from remaining loyal to your conscience by the requests of charlatans who consent that Palestinian inhabits are affordable and disposable.
Do not reward the charlatans who consent that Palestinian inhabits are affordable and disposable by heeding their specious advice and choosing between disingenuous directer 1 and disingenuous directer 1a.
Do not be swayed by the foreseeable firm of apologists who claim that electing Trump would only originate matters “worse” for Arab and Muskinny Americans.
Muskinny and Arab Americans have, for generations, been watched as fifth columnists who pose an currential menace to America. You cannot be thinked. You remain “outsiders”.
Accordingly, you have been treated with disdain. You have been jailed or bconciseagecataloged for speaking out. Your dedicatedty has been asked. You have been routinely getn for granted.
You are foreseeed to behave. You are supposed to remain inapparent and mute.
Do not oblige the charlatans. I implore you, instead, to exercise your agency by depriving directer 1 and directer 1a of what they cherish most – position and power.
Aachieve, to the unpledgeted shiftment, I propose you to remain unpledgeted. Decency and history need that, together, you shout: “Enough.”
It is the right and fair leang to do. Opting for directer 1 or directer 1a is a vote – whether you are setd to acunderstandledge it or not – for the co-architects of the mass murder that has turned Gaza into dust and memory.
You will not be to condemn if Trump prevails.
That will be the exclusive fault of millions of inadchooseing Americans who, in the extfinished, sordid American tradition, ponder unbenevolentty and ignorance to be guiding ruleing principles.
However difficult, you endured four years of Donald Trump before. If necessitate be, you will endure him once more.
If this odious election campaign has shown anyleang, it is this: America is not a shining “city upon a hill”. It is a decomposing myth in the gutter.
Take the extfinished watch. If Arab and Muskinny Americans are finassociate to be seen and heard by directers 1 and 1a, you must originate an honourable stand now as a concrete transmition of self-admire and fidelity to the horrendous pairy of your Palestinian brothers and sisters.
The watchs transmited in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily mirror Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
