Lebanon is absent from the presidential race. The Americans are discussing the possibility of changing the nature of their regime, so why blame the Lebanese? (Antoine El Asmar)

Observers of the final stages of the US presidential election will note the extent of its heat and the dangerous degree of compromise between Republican and Democratic contenders. On the one hand, Joe Biden calls for a mass black vote, that is, a mass black vote in relation to African Americans who are in awe of the racist rhetoric that the Republican Party right has addressed, and on the other hand Donald Trump is strengthening the Bible to keep anger off the street, while neoconservatives ring the bell for preservation. On the nature of the political system that has governed the United States since it was established by the founding fathers, they consider that this system threatens the modern liberal discourse of the Democratic Party. They base their alarm on the fact that a recent census showed that 4 out of 10 “very liberal” Americans support changing the flag and the name of the United States to one that “better reflects the contributions of Native Americans and our diversity as village”. 7 out of 10 liberals support a new anthem and constitution.

It is clear that the popular American elections in the November elections and the debates taking place at the bipartisan grassroots level are radically different from the previous elections. The debate on regime change is advanced in nature. It is true that it was always present (separation of the union as a common discourse in several states), but it did not reach this depth and degree of limitation. Some say that the post-election period, regardless of its outcome, will be a bloody and chaotic period that seriously threatens the federal system. The term Empires Implode is used to denote the depth and severity of the crisis.

In the current American priorities, the following appears:
A-The Covid-19 epidemic has a broad weight and is one of the decisive factors for electoral trends, which is what Donald Trump is aware of and strives to win the bet to complete the vaccine and distribute it before the day presidential, Tuesday, November 3, in parallel to his insistence on relaunching the dynamism of the economy that is currently underway In the midst of an unprecedented recession since the economic crisis (2007-2008), as a result of millions of unemployed and thousands of inactive companies.

B – The white man’s speech widens the gap between the bases of the two competing parties. Republicans are reverting strongly to the tools of the neocons, evangelists, and the Zionist lobby, relying on fear of increasing immigration factors to the United States as a threat to American lifestyles, in order to tugging on the nerves at their bases as well as with the aim of attracting faltering segments, which often constitute a tremendous weight that exceeds the weight of Republican and Democratic supporters Consequently, their polarization becomes a determining factor in the outcome of the elections .

On the other hand, the Democrats exploit the panic of the white and sectarian minorities of speech as racist rhetoric, and propose changes in the core of the system to comfort that class, and more importantly, to attract them to vote for their candidate. Hence the call by modern liberals for radical constitutional change that preserves ethnic and sectarian diversity, which they see threatened by right-wing rhetoric.

C- The absence of foreign policy from the attention of the Americans, while Trump confines his focus on the Iranian record, which he considers capable of making a personal victory for him, which reduces the difference with Biden, in addition to the Chinese issue, to the that he also gives importance to it, based on what he calls the economic and epidemic danger that comes from the yellow country. He is also counting on the peace accords he is forging between Israel and various Gulf states to further his acquisition of the Jewish vote.

D- Lebanon is not registered in the interest of the two conflicting parties equally, since it is not on either of the two presidential agendas, with the exception of what is indicated in the manifesto of the Democratic Party in terms of “providing support and security for Lebanon and Jordan, the two countries that receive an unequal number of refugees ”. On the other hand, Hezbollah mentioned, referring to “the destabilizing actions of Iran, including its support for terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah (…)”.

In the midst of all this, there are those in Beirut that if the United States is currently immersed in a debate about the nature of the system that has ensured its supremacy for decades, then why is a similar debate blamed on Lebanese suffering from uncertainty? and instability as a result of the sterility of the ruling constitution and its many loopholes that interrupt any development and push towards destruction? The country is stripped of itself and stripped of the factors of its being, and perhaps the displacement of its Christians is a final meeting point for its other wing!