The world stands in col­lec­tive con­cern re­gard­ing the out­come of to­mor­row’s US Pres­i­den­tial elec­tions. The polls are not mere­ly be­tween two in­di­vid­u­als, their par­ties and sup­port bases, but giv­en the pow­er and reach of the Unit­ed States in eco­nom­ic, mil­i­tary and po­lit­i­cal mat­ters, the im­pli­ca­tions of the out­come have se­ri­ous po­ten­tial and re­al im­pacts on the world.

Over the decades, Amer­i­can for­eign pol­i­cy to the world, whichev­er par­ty is in of­fice, varies on­ly mar­gin­al­ly and much of that is like­ly to be the same in this in­stance. How­ev­er, re­gard­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty in this elec­tion of a pres­i­dent be­ing a woman of mixed black and In­di­an ori­gins com­ing to pow­er, while the oth­er can­di­date has not hid­den his avowed agen­da to take re­venge on en­e­mies he con­tin­ues to in­sist “stole” the 2020 elec­tion from him, there is the po­ten­tial for an ex­plo­sion of a kind that can threat­en the sta­bil­i­ty of the Amer­i­can so­ci­ety, with ex­ten­sions to the rest of the world.

In the in­stance of De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty can­di­date, Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris, it will be his­toric if a woman is elect­ed pres­i­dent of the lead­ing, male-dom­i­nat­ed coun­try in the West­ern hemi­sphere. By way of poli­cies and pro­grammes, the Har­ris cam­paign has said lit­tle that is new in re­la­tion to that which is typ­i­cal of De­moc­rats: strong on pro­tec­tion and ad­vance­ment of the mid­dle and low­er class­es, with tax­a­tion mea­sures to force the very wealthy in so­ci­ety, the mul­ti-mil­lion­aires, bil­lion­aires and the cor­po­rate sec­tor to pay what is con­sid­ered “their fair share” to the na­tion­al trea­sury.

The par­ty has al­so tar­get­ed women’s health­care, with the in­ten­tion to roll back leg­is­la­tion which ef­fec­tive­ly makes abor­tion un­der any cir­cum­stances, and for any cause, ex­treme­ly dif­fi­cult if not im­pos­si­ble to achieve.

On the oth­er side, the Trump Re­pub­li­can cam­paign has been strong on clamp­ing down on mi­grants pen­e­trat­ing its south­ern bor­der and end­ing what has been la­belled the ad­van­tage that has al­lowed ex­porters to pen­e­trate and de­stroy the Amer­i­can econ­o­my.

“We shall Make Amer­i­ca Great Again and re­spect­ed around the world,” has been one of Trump’s ma­jor cam­paign­ing po­si­tions.

But above and be­yond what­ev­er he has said about the econ­o­my, Trump’s cam­paign has been ori­ent­ed on tak­ing re­venge for his claim that the 2020 elec­tion was stolen from him by the De­moc­rats, and this notwith­stand­ing the dozens of court de­ci­sions to the con­trary.

Re­ports have in­di­cat­ed quite an amount of al­leged ger­ry­man­der­ing of the vote against De­moc­rats, es­pe­cial­ly blacks and coloureds in cer­tain states. Trump’s very overt sup­port for dic­ta­tors in coun­tries such as Rus­sia, North Ko­rea and Hun­gary, along with his promise to be rough on tra­di­tion­al Amer­i­can al­lies in Eu­rope, has al­so caused some con­cern in the US me­dia.

The sev­er­al opin­ion polls al­so dif­fer on­ly slight­ly in their find­ings, show­ing the can­di­dates locked in a dead heat. Over 50 mil­lion elec­tors have al­ready cast their votes while al­le­ga­tions con­tin­ue about elec­tion fraud. Trump and his sup­port­ers have clear­ly in­di­cat­ed that de­feat will be con­sid­ered a steal which will not be tol­er­at­ed, with a promise of re­tal­i­a­tion. The world col­lec­tive­ly holds its breath.