The US Has As Much Moral Authority As Saudi Arabia On The Legitimacy Of Elections by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-11-21 at 22:55:26 )

The US Has As Much Moral Authority As Saudi Arabia On The Legitimacy Of Elections by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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"Let there be no mistake - Sundays regional and municipal elections in Venezuela are nothing more than a sham," reads a recent statement authored by Republican US Senators Jim Risch and Michael McCaul. "The illegitimate Maduro regime has taken drastic measures to dismantle or control every independent institution in the country, including hijacking political parties and the National Electoral Council to ensure state-sponsored electoral fraud."

"Todays elections in Venezuela are as illegitimate as Maduros tyrannical regime," reads a tweet by Republican Senator Rick Scott. "The Venezuelan people deserve free and democratic elections NOW. The United States and all freedom-loving nations must stand up, condemn these sham elections and support the people in their fight for freedom."

The imperial media are lining up behind the official United States government line on Venezuelas gubernatorial and mayoral elections, with The New York Times assuring us that conditions "are far from freely democratic" and The Washington Post reporting that opposition parties "say the elections have been stacked against them by the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro," who sees the elections as "a chance to reassert strength while projecting a veneer of legitimacy."

Make no mistake: Sundays elections in #Venezuela are a sham. The illegitimate #Maduro regime dismantled every independent institution in the country. RepMcCaul & I condemn efforts to legitimize these elections & cont. to support the rights of Venezuelans.-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member (SenateForeign) November 18, 2021

This level of intrusiveness into Venezuelas heavily internationally monitored democratic process is typical of what we have been seeing from the United States political-media class with regard to electoral contests in empire-targeted Latin American nations like Bolivia and Nicaragua.

Which is really silly, because the United States has no more moral authority over the legitimacy of democratic processes than a totalitarian monarchy like Saudi Arabia.

United States elections are of course corrupt and fraudulent, entirely dominated at the federal level by legalized oligarchic bribery in the form of campaign contributions, manipulated primaries, gerrymandering, voter suppression, shutting out third parties, and the worst voting system in the western world.

More than this, though, the United States is also the worlds single most egregious offender when it comes to interfering in foreign elections.

As Claire Bernish has observed in The Free Thought Project, the United States governments own data shows that it interfered in no fewer than 81 foreign elections just between the years 1946 and 2000. You would never know it from the shrieking of the political-media class post-2016, but this would also include brazenly interfering in Russias elections in the nineties to ensure the presidency of Washington lackey Boris Yeltsin.

And that is just election interferences. It does not include more brazen interferences in who governs foreign nations like direct military invasions, staged coups, color revolutions and proxy wars.

Prepare for "the International Community" to condemn Venezuelas elections as unfair and undemocratic when they do not get the results they want.-Shallah Gaykwon (GramsciFag) November 21, 2021

As a completely undemocratic country whose government is also far and away the worlds single most aggressive saboteur of democracy, it is fair to say that United States institutions are the absolute least qualified to comment on the validity of any nations elections on the entire planet.

Everyone would laugh if Saudi Arabias psychopathic crown prince Mohammed bin Salman began opining on the quality of various nations democratic processes, especially if those criticisms were directed at the so-called liberal democracies of the west.

But this same scrutiny of a power structure who has no business commenting on electoral integrity never gets directed at the United States, whose institutions issue such criticisms on a daily basis despite being no more morally qualified to do so than the House of Saud.

If you think about it, Saudi Arabia is nothing other than a more honest version of the United States. Its oligarchs and its official government are the same people, it does not pretend that its warmongering is humanitarian, when it wants to kill a journalist it just dismembers him with a bone saw rather than trying to squeeze him to death with lawfare in a maximum security prison, and it makes no pretense about being a democracy.

The more I observe its behavior on the world stage the more hilarious it gets to see United States political and media figures criticizing the democratic processes of foreign nations.

It is like McDonalds evaluating whether mom and pop restaurants are sufficiently eco-friendly and vegan.

Very silly stuff, mate.

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