Crispin Larangeira

The 2020 Election Crispin Larangeira

There was much debate in the 2020 Democratic party primaries as to who might unseat the Emperor and whether American socialism is possible. Such meanderings were sliced to bits and pounded to dust by the hammer and scythe of communism wielded by those privileged citizens loathe to give up any of their treasures. In wondering the why of this, the larger American social political fabric becomes clear through its representation by some of the primary candidates, Biden and Harris, Sanders and Warren, Buttigieg, Castro, (you don't remember?), Bloomberg, Klobuchar, the Emperor himself and his legions. Each represents armies of the day and night, and together give insight into the American character, its foundation in slavery and racism, imagined individualism, propensity for violence, obliviousness to reality. To understand this peculiar requires some pondering as to the idea of democracy, if there ever had been one, and if so, what was and is it and how did it come about. If American democratic capitalism is democratic, what is Chinese communist capitalism? And what does either have to do with our collective human communion way back when in our cave days? Might socialism syphon what is good in both and reverse human decline in the world as we try to stop the doomsday clock from ticking its last few moments.