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"The American people will decide this election. And the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House."
What he left unsaid was that throughout US history, "neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" - nor civil or other wars caused US elections to be delayed or cancelled.
Nor will a Trump tweet, twitterstorm, or other actions.
On November 3, presidential, congressional, state, and local elections will be held as scheduled.
If Biden defeats Trump as polls now indicate, DJT will leave the White House on January 20.
If he contests the election result, he'd likely do it in federal court, perhaps the nation's highest, and be declared the loser if results certify Biden's triumph.
Though presidential and congressional names and faces change over time, dirty business as usual always triumphs, dark forces retaining power whenever elections are held.
It's the hallmark of fantasy democracy, notably in the US from inception, the nation run by powerful interests controlling things, serving their own interests exclusively.
In spring 2008, ahead of US November presidential and congressional elections that year, Howard Zinn slammed what he called "election madness," saying:
Campaigns are always the same. "(C)andidates preen and smile and bring forth a shower of cliches with a solemnity appropriate for epic poetry," adding:
"This (madness) seizes the country every four years because we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the polls and choose one of the two (candidates for president) mediocrities who have already been chosen for us."
"It is a multiple choice test so narrow, so specious, that no self-respecting teacher would give it to students."
Two wings of the one-party state take turns governing, independents shut out.
Zinn called for directing our time and energy on "educating, agitating, (and) organizing our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the neighborhoods, in the schools" - instead of focuses on campaign promises to be broken no matter which wing of the one-party states is empowered.
"(W)hoever is in the White House (or) Congress," he called for nationwide activism to "chang(e) national policy on matters of war and social justice."
Even when one presidential aspirant is marginally preferable to another, the difference is meaningless "unless the power of the people asserts itself in ways that the occupant of the White House will find it dangerous to ignore."
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