"Is this really Democracy?"
I think many countries, especially the few left who have any real belief in the US as a "beacon of freedom", will be answering in the negative. Those who know better, or act with the US as cohorts, such as the EU, will keep quiet and pretend the great experiment in "liberty and natural born human rights" created in1776's is continuing.
Those who have been tampered with through US bribery, coups, unfair economic tariffs or sanctions, will again see that the American's cry of "US Freedom and Democracy" that the USA believes is the ideal way to force run other societies, is a lie inside it's own borders.
Nothing will happen to better or change the lives for the average US citizen whoever gets into power. Everyone with half a brain knows the real reigns of power are not controlled by the President or Vice President.
If that were true, Kamala Harris would be acting as the President now. Also all the "new policies" she claims to want to implement elected, if Joe Biden is so unfit to run for another term, she could do so. Also the second cabinet meeting of 2024, only held a couple of weeks ago, would not have been chaired by Joe's wife!
Whoever thought that showing the start of that meeting on public air waves did a severe disservice to anyone with any remaining thoughts that the US elected politicians wielded any real power. They obviously don't if Joe or his wife can run the executive branch of US government.
No one in the world will feel much difference when the Deep State gains further power through the election of supposedly populist Donald Trump, or the blackwashed Kamala Harris.
The powers that stay hidden seem to be backing the blackwashed, grand daughter of Irish slave traders, who according to some has been faking a history so murky it compares to the claims made by Trump back when Obama was running first for President. When Obama's birth certificate and Kenyan heritage, was big news, along with a possible passport issued by the British Empire.
This is something that would have made him illegitimate under US law to hold the highest office in the land. It's probably the same as someone coming from the ex British Crown colony of Jamacia, now in the British Commonwealth. Here is a look into the Democratic nominee for Presidents history, and her family background that she seems to be hiding the truth about.
Candace Owens Looks Into The Blackwashing of Kamala Harris
However, to the real rulers of power it makes little difference who they place in the public facing office. A political patsie to take all the flack the masses may throw at them for the failure of the government to actually do anything to help the people of the country, rather than their donors, the MIC and Big Business.
Those voters actually taking time off work to vote, might think it actually makes a difference what choice they make. Maybe some know that if the Empire wanted to, their swipe on an electronic voting machine could easily be switched in a second to their opponent. It doesn't take Russia to do the hacking, but it helps that they or Iran could be blamed for doing so.
I think it has been clear for years, and with every years Las Vegas Def Con Voting Village competition, even kids are now able to hack the latest voting machines. Therefore it makes it little more than a trivial event for those behind the scenes to switch the voting tally if they cared to do so. Those millions who will vote, will all no doubt make claims of another "stolen election", if their candidate doesn't win.
I still cannot get over the hypocrisy of the Democrats who moaned so much about Trumps dislike of the way the 2020 COVID election was handled. This was when due to the plandemic, votes could just be dropped off in mailboxes with no security to manage or control the access to these important boxes. His claims of foul play were just dismissed as the cries of a bitter loser who wanted to steal the election and other-throw the government.
However, people seem to forget that in 2016, when Trump won, the Democrats made the same claims about a stolen election. Hillary Clinton (who had told Trump to run for office believing him to be an easier contender to beat), was so bemused and angry over her loss to Trump, that she made up a whole 4 year news cycle of lies and distortions that became the infamous and now debunked Russigate hoax.
The Democrats definitely cried foul, and their lackies in the MSM touted as gospel, with nightly bombshell reports from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, about Russia collusion that all turned out to be false. If there was any real proof that Russia had an agent running as the US POTUS then I think there would have been more than a failed attempt at impeachment.
No there was nothing to see there in 2016, when the FBI raided an office to find out that Clintons DNC interns used to destroy her old phones and Blackberry devices with hammers. Also, that she was running illegal private servers from her home basement, with unsecured messaging between her and other DNC apparatchiks, using her own personal email accounts.
Although many were destroyed, others were leaked. Most famously the Podesta emails probably sent to WikiLeaks by DNC staffer Seth Rich, who died in a "botched robbery", in which nothing was stolen, and the MSM covered it up as a right wing conspiracy. They just added it to their Russia is to blame for Trump being elected delusion, and their incorrect conclusion that Trump had somehow robbed her of that 2016 election.
The botched robbery maybe true, and maybe Russia hacked the DNC then passed the info along to WikiLeaks. Thousands of GB slowly trickling out of the servers without being noticed. Or maybe someone working there just downloaded them and passed them along on a USB drive.
It would have been a lot simpler to do, and much easier to disguise, unless he was found out of course. Of course it is just conspiracy theorists who suggest that Seth Rich was just another name for the list of the unexplained and mysterious deaths that seem to follow the Clinton family around over the decades.
It seems though that whoever wins the election for the world to clap their hands at and marvel at the "greatest nation on earth" and their Democratic Process, that the fate of the world hangs in the balance whoever becomes the outward face, whether pretending to be someone they are not, or just beholden to foreign interests.
Either compromised through blackmail at an Epstein or P Diddler party, or just beholden to AIPAC or other big money interests seemingly needed by most politicians to run for President or the Senate/Congress.
The Deep State obviously thinks Trump is a risk to the flow of money to Ukraine, and the filling of MIC coffers which has already seen multiple attempts on his life. Something already being memory holed by the left leaning media, which is enough to raise suspicion on it's own, whatever the failures, accidental or deliberate by those supposed to be protecting him.
The MSM is also trying to spin it in case of a successful hit or even not, that Iranian hitmen are all about, and that they are behind the attempts on his life, despite the attempted assassins links to the intelligence services.
It does seem to be a bit of a coincidence with all the strife in the Middle East at the moment, with Israel trying to drag the US into it's regional war, that Iran is all over the papers about plots to kill Trump.
However, Trump seems to believe in these claims that it's Iran trying to kill him not Deep State trained nutjobs, that the MIC are using as Patsies. I don't doubt he will go after Iran and back Israel up in their regional war, whether or not he helps close down the Ukrainian threat to global stability and real and potential nuclear conflict with Russia.
Putin only just changed their nuclear doctrine on September 25, 2024. This now means that Russia will view any assault on it supported by a nuclear power as a joint attack, justifying a nuclear response.
It knows that it is US/UK/NATO troops not Ukrainians, that load in the secure satellite based targeting data needed for long range attacks into it's country, and it will declare war on those countries if attacked by Storm Shadows or ATACM missiles.
This stopped the recent announcement of such a move by UK's PM Sir Kier Starmer and President Biden on a recent visit to Washington due suspected back channel threats by Russia that they were not bluffing, giving a list of targets they would strike if attacked in such a manner.
So whoever becomes the face of the next US government, we can be assured of more US aggression whether its is in Ukraine, or the Middle East.
The MIC and Deep State are not going to let the people of the USA have a real voice at the ballot box.
All that matters is the money those companies like Raytheon and BAe pump in to support Presidential candidates, and paying them back in the best way they know how;
Constant war.