Perhaps this is a consequence of the Americanization of the world: the midterm elections taking place today in the United States are exciting Western societies.
We are so mentally dominated by the United States that we follow their political lives with more passion than we do.
We like to import their vocabulary, their concepts, and even their problems, even if it means imagining them at home if they aren’t there.
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It is true that in the twentieth century we are used to seeing Americans as the “guardians of democracy.” This was generally true between 1917 and 1989, but it wasn’t for thirty years.
Having said that, let’s take an honest look at it.
What do we see there if not, first of all, a country divided and torn, on the psychological threshold of a civil war, where an old man with hawk-eyes, on the cusp of old age, nearly mummified during his lifetime, obviously I’m talking about Joe Biden, occupies the White House.
His opponent is a paranoid adventurer, almost imitated, inhabited by the imagination of sheer power, who in the next half of the country maintains a state of mind of rebellion, obviously I’m talking about Donald Trump.
The global context is no better: left-wing totalitarian ideology, the awakened ideology, has dominated universities, the media, and the business world. It leads to an anti-democratic revolution.
The other part of the country, marked on the right, considers the political system so corrupt that it flirts without saying it openly with the logic of secession, leading to chaos.
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We don’t really see what would reconcile what some others would call the separate states of America.
A new kind of civil war is going on in the depths of the country.
But there are plenty of reasons to free ourselves from it, to prevent this decadent empire from dragging us down.
