The first examples of inferential conclusions from the American elections, approached with elementary analytical ability, can show us what was at stake in them, whether at the level of electoral contest, or at the level of geopolitical, or at the level of political analysis, or at the level of sociological. We must analyze the “mother” of all contemporary political battles, because it is obvious that the American elections are those that determine, without exaggeration, to a large extent and indirectly or directly, the very essence of the lives of the citizens of the world, namely what is at stake at the social level, at the geopolitical level, at the economic level, at the level of localized or generalized, overt or covert wars… so this confrontation was crucial.
Two worlds collided, the world of the Republicans and the Democrats collided. The Republicans are now a popular party, while the Democrats are more of a cosmopolitan party and one could say a party of the elite. The center and the periphery of the American political and social complex collided, that is, the banking system and multinational services against an agricultural peripheral world and an old industrial world. Unfortunately, women collided against men. Women, mainly because they came to the polls outraged over the issue of abortion, as Trump ended up winning (through the “special” of Chief Justice – since 2005 – John Glover Roberts Jr. on the US Supreme Court) the overturning of the decision in the case “Roe versus Wade”1, so that the issue of abortion is now being examined in the individual constituent states of the state.
The election was also a matter of minority versus white. It was certainly not exactly like that, in the sense that Hispanics now found themselves in a much higher percentage closer to Trump, despite the fact that most of them moved towards the Democrat Kamala Harris. We also had a college graduate versus non-college graduate level. Non-college graduates were closer to Trump and college graduates were closer to Harris.
In addition, we had a geopolitical and international level of the election, where the globalized sense of international relations through supranational organizations, as expressed by the Democratic party, and an ethnocentric approach, as at least Trump sees the global system architecture of international relations, which extends in the absence of most nation states, collide. There is even the conflict between the mainstream media and independent media decentralized from the guiding establishment center, operated by people like Joe Rogan 2 (“Joe” Rogan), who has openly supported Trump from the beginning.
We have a System of Isolationism 3 that is, a perception of America remaining in its own affairs, which must first correct and consolidate its own affairs, before anything else. This is the perception of President Trump, which echoes a modified approach to the Monroe Doctrine 4.
Of course, there is the other perception of the “Neoconservatives”, but mainly of the Democrats, which concerns the American-style imposition of Liberal “Democracy” by means of weapons. Where the USA, as a global sheriff, “rescues” … forcibly the peoples from various anti-American and ethnocentric “dictators” – their rulers and brings the saving … pro-American “Democracy”.
There is also a perception of complete freedom of speech, which Trump expresses through the team of his collaborator tycoon Elon Musk and his beloved media outlet “X”, while in parallel there is (and has largely dominated for many years) an opposing, establishment perception that accepts and promotes a “more Democratic” (with many quotation marks) censorship, as was the case for so long with Facebook and Twitter before Elon Musk bought and took over.
We also have a conflict between a gradual energy transition from hydrocarbons to green energy and the immediate abolition of hydrocarbons on the part of the Democrats. We also have a perception of a distorting communication system of Hollywood “stars” (see for example the Democratic “ultra-Democrat” Jennifer Lopez), of …. celebrity singers like Taylor Alison Swift and of television “celebrities” like Oprah Gale Winfrey, all of whom passionately supported Harris. On the other hand, we have a parade of personalities such as the notorious multifaceted businessman Elon Musk, diplomat Richard Grenell, former US ambassador to Germany (2018-2020), Florida Senator Marco Rubio, the nephew of the late assassinated US President JFK, Robert Kennedy Jr. (who went from being an independent candidate to joining Trump’s camp), Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State in the previous Trump administration, as well as personalities such as Joe Rogan, whom we mentioned above.
Therefore, there is obviously a completely different approach between the two sides regarding the course of the multi-complex and multi-level structure that we understand as a whole and in general, as “Western Society”.
NOTES
1. Roe versus Wade or 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is the name of a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, in which it was held that the United States Constitution generally protects the freedom of a pregnant woman to choose to have an abortion. The decision struck down numerous U.S. federal and state abortion laws, and it sparked an ongoing debate in the United States over whether and to what extent abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, and what the role of moral and religious considerations should be. The decision also shaped the debate over the Supreme Court’s methods of constitutional adjudication.
The case was brought by Norma McCorvey—known by her legal pseudonym “Jane Roe”—who in 1969 became pregnant with her third child. McCorvey wanted to have an abortion, but in Texas, where she lived, abortion was illegal unless necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman. Her attorneys, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, filed a lawsuit on her behalf in U.S. federal court against her local attorney general, Henry Wade, claiming that Texas’ abortion laws were unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled in favor of the plaintiff and declared the Texas abortion laws unconstitutional. The parties appealed the decision to the United States Supreme Court.
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision that held that a Clause in the U.S. Constitution provides a fundamental “right to privacy,” which also protects a pregnant woman’s right to an abortion. However, the Court also recognized that this right is not absolute and must be balanced against the government’s interest in protecting women’s health and prenatal life. This controversial decision became a target of anti-abortion politicians and activists, and was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, or 597 U.S. 215 (2022) caused a variety of international reactions, because it ruled that the Constitution does not provide a right to abortion.
2. Joseph James Rogan (born 1967) is an American UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) sportscaster, podcaster, comedian, actor, and former television host. He hosts “The Joe Rogan Experience,” a podcast in which he discusses current events, comedy, politics, philosophy, science, and hobbies with various guests.
3. One of the best-known and most important cases of “isolationism” in history is the policy followed by the United States of America, which in a sense began with the “Farewell Address” of the country’s main founder, George Washington, in 1796, but was crystallized with the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 and maintained with fluctuations for more than a century, until December 1941, when the USA took an active part in the war not only against Japan, which had attacked them, but also against the other Axis powers. It is extremely important that after the end of World War II, the United States pursued with equal consistency the opposite policy of isolationism, promoting the creation of a dominant American-centered System of international political and military organizations, with a global character.
4. The Monroe Doctrine, derived from the 5th President of the United States, James Monroe, was a defining moment (December 2, 1823) in the foreign policy of the United States and played an important role in it, since it was accepted by many future influential Presidents, such as Theodore Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
