从"懂王"到"哈哈怪":2024美国大选的戏剧性转折
让我们再来聊一聊美国大选。自从川普如有神助般从此前的危机中死里逃生,相形之下,老态龙钟的拜登的人气越来越无法与川普相比。让拜登继续参选下去,民主党也不相信能够吸引足够的选票。
在经历了一场似乎无声的政变之后,拜登"主动"退选,让副总统哈里斯代表自己继续参与选举,对抗"懂王"川普。其实,这个哈里斯也只是一个叠满政治正确标签的人物:她的母亲是印度裔,父亲是牙买加黑人,本身又是女性。但除了这些标签之外,她没有任何实际的政府管理经验。
担任四年副总统期间,哈里斯也是事无所成。她最有名的"政绩"就是在担任加州总检察长期间,推出了抢劫900美元以下不算犯罪的法律,被戏称为"零元购法案"。而且种种迹象表明,她的政治能力很可能还不及疑似患有老年痴呆的拜登。
拜登的特点是经常由于记忆问题说错话,张冠李戴。在前不久的北约峰会上,他甚至把泽连斯基叫成了普京。而哈里斯的特点则是总在不合时宜的场合发出诡异的大笑,这很容易让中国的80后联想起小时候一部类似《变形金刚》的动画片《百变雄狮》中的一个反派角色——哈哈怪。不仅五官面相相似,他们的行为举止也颇为神似。
比如,有一次在演讲中提到,由于新冠疫情的影响,造成了上百万妇女失业。这本是一个沉重的话题,但她说完后却莫名其妙地发出了她那标志性的"哈哈哈"笑声。这似乎表明,她讲的那些话都只是下属秘书给她写好的稿子,她只是一部念稿机器。她对其中所表述的事实,没有一丝一毫自己的思考,也没有倾注一点点情感。也就是说,她虽然在讲民众的疾苦,但这只是照本宣科,她内心的实际状态是根本就不在乎。
当然,政客们大多不在乎民众疾苦,只在乎权力。但专业的政客会演戏,而哈里斯的演技水平却只能做到不停笑场。那么,为什么民主党还要将这个比拜登强不了多少的候选人作为拜登的继任者推上前台呢?
之前也讨论过,拜登退选之后,民主党内也不乏政治精英。奥巴马的妻子米歇尔无论人气和能力都在这个哈里斯之上。个人认为,这表明民主党的主流实际上已经形成了以官僚集团为主体的政治势力,类似于中国历史上的宦官和外戚集团。这些官僚控制着国家的机构,直接掌控着国家的权力。
在原本的政治架构中,总统的存在实际上是为了控制官僚集团的势力膨胀。但当碰到权势较弱的总统无法控制时,这些官僚集团就成为了真正的掌权者。就像中国历史上经常出现宦官和权臣废立皇帝,拥护幼童皇帝上位,而由权臣操控朝政的情况一样。
而民主党现在看起来也是这样一种状态。他们不需要一个精力充沛、有能力、有魅力的人坐上总统的位置。相反,他们需要的是像拜登这样年老体衰、没有精力的人,或者像哈里斯这样对治国理政完全不懂、也没有自己政治主张的人坐上总统的位置。而且这些官僚大部分都是不需要经过民主选举的。这样实际上也就是在事实上终结了美国的民主政治。
Let's talk a little bit more about the US election. Since Trump's seemingly miraculous escape from previous crises, the aging Biden's popularity has increasingly failed to match Trump's. Nor do Democrats believe they can attract enough votes to keep Biden in the race.
After a seemingly silent coup d 'etat, Biden "voluntarily" withdrew from the election, allowing Vice President Harris to continue to participate in the election on his behalf, against the "understand king" Trump. In fact, this Harris is just a figure with politically correct labels: her mother is Indian, her father is black Jamaican, and she is a woman. But beyond those labels, she doesn't have any actual government experience.
Harris also accomplished nothing during his four years as vice president. Her most famous "achievement" was that as California Attorney General, she introduced a law that made robbery of less than $900 a crime, nicknamed the "Zero Purchase Act." And by all indications, she may not be as politically competent as Mr. Biden, who has suspected Alzheimer's disease.
Biden's hallmark is that he often slips up and slips up because of memory problems. At a recent NATO summit, he even referred to Zelensky as Putin. Harris, on the other hand, is known for his bizarre laugh at inappropriate occasions, which easily reminds Chinese born in the 1980s of a villain in the Transformers similar cartoon "Lion" in their childhood. Not only are their facial features similar, but their behavior is also very similar.
For example, one speech mentioned that millions of women have lost their jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a heavy topic, but for no reason, she finished with her trademark "ha ha ha" laugh. It seemed that what she was saying was just a script written for her by her secretary, that she was just a reading machine. She gave no thought or emotion to the facts expressed therein. That is to say, although she is talking about the sufferings of the people, this is only scripted, and the actual state of her heart is not concerned at all.
Of course, politicians are mostly indifferent to people's suffering, only to power. But professional politicians can act, and Harris's acting skills are limited to laughing. So why are Democrats pushing this candidate, who is not much better than Biden, forward as Biden's successor?
As previously discussed, there is no shortage of political elites in the Democratic Party after Biden's exit from the election. Obama's wife, Michelle, is more popular and competent than Harris. Personally, this shows that the mainstream of the Democratic Party has actually formed a political force with the bureaucracy as the main body, similar to the eunuchs and clans in Chinese history. These bureaucrats control the institutions of the state and directly hold the power of the state.
In the original political structure, the president actually exists to control the growth of the bureaucracy. But when a weak president cannot control them, these bureaucracies become the real power. Just like in Chinese history, eunuchs and powerful ministers often abolished the emperor and favored the ascendance of the child emperor, while the powerful ministers controlled the government.
The Democratic Party now seems to be in that state. They don't need an energetic, capable, charismatic man in the president's seat. Instead, they need someone as old and weak as Biden, or someone like Harris who knows nothing about governing and has no political agenda of his own. And most of these bureaucrats are not democratically elected. This would, in effect, be the de facto end of American democracy.