Dear Harris voters:

I remember reading early on that your candidate's Website had no discussion of issues. I looked just now, and it doesn't appear that the Website still has any such discussion. It would be nice if you were to be apprised of what you would be getting under a Harris administration.

One can only conclude certain things from this absence. Generally, the public as a whole should be free to presume, then, that what matters about Harris is that she is "not Trump," and that, when you vote for Harris, that's what you're voting for. Alastair Crooke has a fairly good elaboration of what is going on. The first couple of minutes after my bookmark will tell you what you need to know:

In all honesty, it appears that the Trump voters will also be getting "not Trump". Oh, sure, the "not Trump" administration may throw a little red meat to the base, e.g. the Supreme Court and the Dobbs decision; after all, the people who voted for Trump will have to be granted some sort of facade, some sort of "evidence" that Trump is in charge. For the most part, however, America was, is, and will be ruled by what I am calling the Man Behind the Curtain, the unelected leadership whose actual name or names dare not be spoken. Who, for instance, is making decisions in, or for, the White House today? It's not Joe Biden; Biden has been incompetent for some time now. He is pretty much the dementia patient that America saw in the one earlier "debate" he had with Trump. It's not Harris, because it if it were Harris, she would be President right now. So who is it? It's the Man Behind the Curtain, that's who.

The first term Trump was characterized by Trump's incompetence and laziness -- he will doubtless consider winning the election, if he wins it, as public vindication of these traits of his. He won't consider winning to be a vindication of any of the nonsense he's babbled while on the campaign trail. Meanwhile, the Man Behind the Curtain will be doing the real work, just as with a Harris victory.

So, when you vote for Kamala Harris, you will simply be signaling your trust in the Man Behind the Curtain. That is, to be sure, ALL you will be doing. It is also true, however, that the Trump voters will be signaling their trust in the Man Behind the Curtain, though to a slightly lesser extent. Here it is fair to inquire why Trump was the target of an assassination attempt, aided and abetted by an "incompetent" Secret Service. Should we assume that Trump will at some point be receiving an anonymous phone call: "Remember when we sent someone to kill you? We can do it again. Here's, then, what you must do to avoid that possibility." In contrast, the Man Behind the Curtain cannot be assassinated, for if someone were to kill him, another one would take his place.

It is fair to assume in this regard that the Man Behind the Curtain will have a very important say in who will be elected in November, too. In this regard, please take care not to harass voters who do not choose your candidate, because their votes mean less than you think. You do recall, I hope, that all Presidential elections since 1992 have been decided by voters in what are called "swing states," most of which are in the Midwest. If you don't live in a "swing state," then, you won't be choosing our President.

What is interesting, if anything at all, about this election -- the November one -- is the transparency and obviousness of the Man Behind the Curtain arrangement in which democracy is merely simulated. The members of what is often called the "donor class" like their Presidents weak and malleable, and so that's all you will be getting. But hopefully, given the increased transparency of the process, as you can see it with your own eyes, we can put to bed certain staples of American political rhetoric:

1) "Most important election in history." If anything, this is the least important election in history.

2) "Fascism." To be sure, America is an authoritarian country. But there is nothing "fascist" about American authoritarianism outside of the whole "fusion of corporations and government" thing. The Fascism of the inter-war period, real Fascism, depended upon strongmen, and so you had Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and (by extension) Pinochet. The real Fascists were openly anti-democratic. The Man Behind the Curtain, however, can only be a de facto leader; the democratic facade must continue, in the US, to an extent minimally necessary. And so we must vote for figureheads. How else are we Americans to feel superior to those backward, supposedly undemocratic countries like Russia, China, or Iran? So what is all too often called "fascism" is merely pseudo-democratic.

3) "Saving democracy." For three and a half years the Democrats were pretending to "save democracy" by telling the world that it has no choice but to vote for that senile old man Joe Biden. The Democratic Party's general attacks upon third party ballot access efforts bear this conclusion out. Now, the Democrats are telling the world that it has no choice but to vote for Biden's stand-in, Kamala Harris. None of this activity has anything to do with saving democracy. Its most recent manifestation was when the Man Behind the Curtain told the government of Venezuela who really won its recent Presidential election.

4) "Supporting Ukraine." For the past two and a half years, now, the United States has been destroying Ukraine by pushing it to conduct "counter-offensives" which have resulted, materially, in the destruction of half a million Ukrainian troops. The charade in Ukraine continues because global elites, most specifically the IMF, World Bank, European bankers, and Blackstone, own Ukraine lock, stock, and barrel. And said elites, most specifically the Man Behind the Curtain and his supporters, want to keep Ukraine for its mineral resources -- their most forthright representative Lindsey Graham told you as much just recently.

5) "Israel's right to exist." What this really means is that the Man Behind the Curtain has the right to maintain a global order based on fear of the United States and its proxies, as with Ukraine. Genocide is the most recent manifestation of this maintenance aspect, as is AIPAC control over American elections. As regards voting for Genocide Kamala, the stand-in for Genocide Joe, or for Donald Trump, who clearly wants his taste of genocide, I defer to Rome:

In conclusion, I want to wish you a very happy and fruitful election season, full of yelling and screaming and cheering on your candidate. May you get a taste of electioneering, as deep as you are willing to stand.

Yours in friendship,
Cassiodorus