It is unthinkable in the country of truffles that a Cgil would not remain mixed with the PD, with the union secretary who invariably ends up in Parliament, in the European Parliament, if not in the presidency of a Chamber. In America, of course, the democratic music is the same, unions and parties as articulations of the same power, except that in those parts the impossible is happening and that is that Sean O’Brien the head of one of the most important organizations, the Teamstersone million three hundred thousand members between the USA and Canada, denied his endorsement to Kamala Harristhe Democratic candidate. It’s the first time since 1996 and that’s not all, because more or less confidential polls predict a vote for the opposing candidate, Trump, by two to one.
But things have changed, not only tastes, attitudes and expectations. Today an airplane pilot can perceive himself as a “worker” and a delivery boy, instead, to recognize himself in the middle class – assuming that it still exists, that certain twentieth-century distinctions survive. The fact is that not even the support of 36 billion dollars from the Democratic administration to the Teamsters pension fund seems enough to confirm a loyalty that seemed candidate-proof, and that, suddenly, seems to punish, beyond any other consideration, convenience or calculation, the ambiguous, arrogant Dem representative. Who enjoys, yes, the sympathies of the pop billionaires, of technological finance (Musk aside), of Hollywood glamour, but no longer of the traditional left-wing voters. The Taylor SwiftBille Eilish, Clooney to make up for the lack of turnout, estimated at least 800 thousand votes, of Teamsters members? Will propaganda be enough, which aims to sell the Kamala product like a vaccine, to show off doped optimism, the classic strategy of the self-fulfilling prophecy, of “we cannot lose because we are better, because the other is a criminal?
Other polls seem sceptical and, for what polls are still worth, they seem to be preparing a sensational debacle for Biden’s vice president. The problem, for Harris, is that the reasons for the refusal, by the workers, are all there, they are not invented or inflated. The Democratic presidential hopeful embodies in all respects the mutation of a completely financialized leftan elite left, of the rich and for the rich. And it could be said that in Protestant and Puritan America another type of populism is breathed, that between the blue and red candidate there has never been much difference at least in the last 100 years, that the Kennedys were already dynasties painted with progressivism, but dynasties; all true, but reasoning like this takes the matter backwards: it is not the candidate but the electorate that counts, and Kamala Harris, like and more than Obama, today is able to intercept the privileged, the stars but much less the everyday individual, the common citizen. And she has a more difficult life than Obama, who at least could play on the racial novelty, a black man who rose from the lower middle class to the holy of holies of the White House: everything already experienced, everything already lived and, from the American perspective, no longer exciting.
If what Einstein said about them is true: “They are like children, and sometimes they can become dangerous.” The cynical candor of Americans, their constant need for even cruel talesof consumable myths, does not find in Kamala Harris material for dreams; and it would not be a surprise if it were discovered that the Instagram funnel does not correspond to the ballot box, which a click is not necessarily worth a vote. Then, of course, everything remains a conjecture, we are only trying to understand, like the rest of the world, to imagine, like anyone who asks themselves the question of tomorrow, but one thing cannot be denied: the enormous confusion in which everyone seems to be floundering, from psychopathic snipers to workers on the brink of a class crisis. It has been calculated that the election campaign of the largest “democracy” in the world will burn the absurd sum of 20 billion dollars: to do what? Yes, there is great confusion under the sky but perhaps it doesn’t help much to have as main sponsor a woman who uses her private jet 200 times a year, and since you can’t say that Taylor Swift it’s bullshit, you have to say that the planet is dying because of the poor people’s slot machines.
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