The tumultuous world situation demands both a clear vision for the future and a fighting spirit to bring it into being.
Trump’s campaign team continues to develop evidence, reach out to witnesses, and file lawsuits to address election fraud, with the support of some Congressional Republicans and by his many supporters around the country. Attorney General Bill Barr has issued guidance to DoJ officials that investigations of potentially election-changing voting crimes can begin now, rather than waiting until after the election is certified (at which point it would be too late to make a difference).
Although the media have proclaimed Joe Biden the President-Elect, the Constitution quite plainly gives them no role in making that determination. And while Joe Biden has been congratulated by numerous leaders from around the world, the presidents of Mexico, Russia, and China are not part of that list. The Government Services Administration, which administers such basics as office space, travel, and the like, has not certified Biden as the President-Elect, meaning he has been unable to access security clearances, travel funds, or office space, and is unable to interface with the State Department or through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Even the betting website Betfair, recognizing that the election has not legally been decided, has refused to pay out on bets for Biden winning the election.
Trump is not waiting for the election results to be solidified; he is preparing his second administration. He has fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, the carbon-price-supporting head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the climate-doom-prophesying head of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. This is in line with his decision to leave the unscientific, anti-human, economy-wrecking disaster known as the Paris Climate Accord.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is attempting to lay out his vision for his would-be administration. He has said that two central items of focus are climate change and the coronavirus. The Greening of the economy (more green than economy), being ecstatically discussed in the City of London this week, would be eagerly joined by Biden, who would implement policies under the guise of protecting the environment that would set back human potential, perpetuate poverty, and slow science under schemes to use such antique power sources as windmills.
Among the dozen members of Biden’s proposed coronavirus task force is none other than Ezekiel “Easy-Kill” Emanuel, who worked on health care policy in the Obama Administration, leading to what ended up as the cost-cutting gift to the insurance “industry” known as Obamacare. Eager to reduce healthcare expenditures, Emanuel worked out which people should be thrown in the trash. In his “Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions,” published in the Lancet shortly after Obama’s inauguration, Emanuel unveiled his invention called the “Complete Lives System” (CLS). It “produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.” The title of his 2014 article “Why I Hope to Die at 75: An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly” speaks for itself.
Some people are not only impatient that Trump hasn’t conceded the election; they’re even upset that he is in the White House at all! The ghoulish John Brennan was so offended that Trump (who won an election for his position) fired Mark Esper (his employee who didn’t), that he fumed, “if Vice-President Pence and the Cabinet had an ounce of fortitude and spine and patriotism, I think they would seriously consider invoking the 25th Amendment and pushing Donald Trump out.”
Developments elsewhere in the world put the ongoing brawl in the United States into deeper perspective. In Bolivia, the candidate of the party of former President Evo Morales, deposed a year ago in a coup, won a resounding victory in the election, defeating the attempted attack on democracy in that nation. In the Caucasus, the growing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has reached a new stage of resolution through the mediation of Russia, preventing an outbreak of conflict and terrorism in that region so crucial to global integration, and so long a target of British destabilization. In Iraq, the oil-for-reconstruction program worked out between that nation and China is back on the table, according to the Prime Minister. This offers a true path forward towards development, free of the trans-Atlantic financial miasma emanating from a deep Green pit.
For the world to escape the economic devastation inherent in a Greening of the economy requires the economic outlook Lyndon LaRouche long championed, of the proper sovereignty of governments rather than financial institutions, of government-accelerated investment into new frontiers of science and technology — most especially space and nuclear fusion, and of enormous investment into qualitatively superior infrastructure platforms (including social infrastructure) to serve as a substrate for increased physical productivity.
This outlook must succeed, and defeating the flagrant assault on democracy in the United States, freeing that nation to participate in a global economic renaissance, is a key factor in affecting it. As Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche put it in her contribution to a Tuesday roundtable on the 2020 election, “Everything is at stake.”
