About the US-election 2024

My blog is rare­ly poli­ti­cal, and I usual­ly com­ment occa­sio­nal­ly on poli­ti­cal events. The US elec­tion is such a poli­ti­cal event.

I start my review of the radio play adapt­a­ti­on of 1984 on my sis­ter blog with the fol­lo­wing sen­ten­ces (link to review in ger­man, the radio play was pro­du­ced in Eng­land last year and has no direct refe­rence to Donald Trump). “Rule and con­trol a popu­la­ti­on with fear! Spread fake news and mani­pu­la­te the news! Do you know this sce­na­rio?” And of cour­se I was thin­king about the US elec­tions, becau­se I alre­a­dy knew that this dis­as­ter was going to hap­pen after it beca­me incre­asing­ly clear that the US citi­zens would­n’t take any­thing from a woman. Espe­ci­al­ly not a black woman.

The blea­ting sheep have to run after the rich white men. Pro­ba­b­ly becau­se many are still clinging to the Ame­ri­can dream, which is long gone.

I alre­a­dy have my pro­blems to see the US elec­tions as demo­cra­tic. Elec­tions in which tho­se who get less votes can win. Elec­tions that depend on money and votes that are open­ly bought thanks to mul­ti­mil­lionaires.

Yes, for the next fede­ral elec­tion in Ger­ma­ny, it would do our coun­try a lot of good if we did­n’t slip into mul­ti-par­ty diver­si­ty, whe­re a coali­ti­on can­not be for­med by more than two par­ties. But the fact that we alre­a­dy know which par­ty will win in which sta­tes is so far off the mark that we would­n’t even need to vote in tho­se sta­tes.

But this elec­tion is not the first in which the­se abu­ses have been cri­ti­ci­zed, regard­less of the out­co­me. The only thing left to do now is hope that Trump does­n’t push his head through the wall too hard and does­n’t cau­se too much dama­ge to world peace and the glo­bal eco­no­my. Is that too much to ask of a cri­mi­nal?

I just feel very sor­ry for the mar­gi­na­li­zed groups who now have to fear for their skins for ano­ther four years. And it seems that in Trump’s world, it’s not just que­er peo­p­le who are mar­gi­na­li­zed, but also all non-white peo­p­le and women. Well, hop­eful­ly the situa­ti­on won’t be quite as dis­as­trous as in the UK, whe­re they found out too late what it means to no lon­ger be a mem­ber of the EU (and are now too proud to initia­te re-ent­ry).

And per­haps Mr. Trump will lis­ten to his advi­sors during this legis­la­ti­ve peri­od and not fire them imme­dia­te­ly if they don’t dance to his tune or have an opi­ni­on of their own. Not very likely, but hope dies last, as we all know.