By Kwame Gonza

The disagreement between the conservative or liberal Republicans and liberal or neoliberal Democrats deserves a closer look.

While it may look like a huge divide when looked at from the inside, to get a clearer picture it is important to step outside like someone watching a football match. Otherwise, one’s perspective may be crowded and pushed into misjudgment.

While previously the Democrats looked like they favored a more moderate outlook on the economy internally, the failure of the unleashed neoliberal policies since the late 1980s has pushed the Democratic Party to look more like the new Republican Party, and the Republican Party itself descending into outright fascism.

The National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan pushed against what he almost called senseless free-market economics and called for aggressive government intervention and participation in directing the American economy instead of leaving it to the so-called private sector. In this, he called for integrating the US foreign policy with the revival of the shrinking American middle class.

The contradiction is that the same group heavily subsidized Wall Street, which was responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, and the same group championed the deindustrialization of the country—not that this deindustrialization was bad for the world.

It is interesting that President Trump, who was supposedly to rescue the working people, has also gone down the same road of doling out massive tax cuts to the richest—a clear contradiction again.

On the foreign policy front, which is most relevant to this article, the objective or objectives of the two groups are the same: securing the continued domination of the so-called Western civilization, aka white domination of the world.

In one of Jake Sullivan’s speeches, he spoke of securing resources for the Western world from wherever they may be. This voice has been amplified by Western industry leaders like Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon.

While the belief by Democrats has historically been to achieve this objective through covert operations and coercive or blackmail tactics, the group has increasingly become militant, which has led to them starting numerous wars, such as in Libya.

The core difference, and what the two groups of Democrats and Republicans disagree on, is how to implement their foreign policy. While one group thinks they should use deceptive tactics and blackmail, the other says there is no need to waste time since the objective is the same: subjugation. They would rather use brute force as of old, arguing that the use of deception, coercion, and blackmail is costing a lot of resources.

Hence, we see the Trump government restricting the flow of resources to those instruments which were created and used since the emergence of the United States of America as a power after World War II. Institutions like USAID, WHO, and the UN, which had a lot of United States support previously, are currently seeing a scaling back of obligations to which no one forced it.

As we look toward the future of Africa, our survival and sovereignty do not depend on who wins the White House. True African independence depends on building our own parallel structures of unity and strength—such as interconnecting our continent through independent, pan-African infrastructure networks. Africa must stop watching the match from the stands and build its own stadium and that is exactly what the African Continental Unity Party represents, a New Urgent shift to rapidly rebuilding the African Continental States.