Biden, President: in defense of American democracy

It was only a matter of time before the news, which had been sensed since Wednesday, was ratified. Trump had it impossible when the early and mail-in vote recount began, mostly Democrats. For those who believe that there has been a theft because of the turnaround in the recount in several states like Pennsylvania in favor of Biden, we only have to remind them of what the president asked his voters during the campaign: don't vote remotely or early and go to the polls on Tuesday, November 3 because otherwise they will manipulate your election. With that request repeated a thousand times, the logical thing to do was to wait for what happened. No fooling around or fraud, Mr. Trump. You have lost the elections in the country that best exemplifies contemporary democracy, in spite of everything that has happened, in spite of those who are now basing their criticism on the most consolidated electoral system on the planet. 

From the European left, from the traditional anti-Americanism of the Old Continent, from the vicinity of the Russian government, they are these days stirring up criticism of the United States because its electoral system has spent several days in discerning who the winner of an election was, in the midst of the 21st century! When victory depends on a few hundred votes, it does not seem the most opportune thing to run at full speed to offer a fast result. All the votes must be counted. But these criticisms point to something worse. For those who harbor them, it is better to murder and poison opposition leaders, to modify the Constitution to perpetuate themselves in power, to annex foreign territories or to provoke wars in neighboring territories to feed the imperialist dream.

All this is better than the failed American democracy. The country of a single candidate is much more "democratic," even if fifty covers are in competition, because the votes are counted more quickly, they are practically all in the same bag. The Bulgarian way. As in Cuban endorsements, where it is mandatory to vote, and it is mandatory to vote for what the regime says, of course. 

The US democracy itself, the one that Tocqueville praised after his trip to America, knows that what happened is questionable and will know, as it has always done, how to overcome the difficulties by introducing corrective mechanisms in its maxim of government of the people, by the people and for the people. Non-partisan commissions will be set up in Congress, made up of true experts and not the meritorious ones always proposed by the parties in Spain to ratify their position. And these commissions could propose a constitutional amendment to establish a proportional system for the first time beyond Nebraska and Maine. 

All this is the consequence of the presence of a candidate who does not accept the results, which was furthermore fed on his arrival in power by those who today question the Constitution and the We, the People system in a ridiculous way. America, the beautiful, will survive these and many other detractors as it has always done, because it is the country in the world that comes closest to the idea of pure and essential democracy. Biden's triumph is a symbol in this sense, but not because a leftist who is a subscriber to socialism like Trump has won, and European progressives agree in warning, which is inaccurate, but because it makes the current president the fifth to be left without reelection, unless the courts fix it . He has twisted the system that America's enemies want to overthrow and has been its greatest ally. And he has been the one who has put in check the institutions to which he is now going to appeal.