The US is not, and has never been, a democracy, because the people do not direct the actions of the government except on the margins. There is no democratic input on imperialism or capitalism. Those are invariate, and the system is designed to protect those from public influence.
The US founding fathers were very explicit about how they intended to set up a constitutional order that would protect their class interest against democracy. The last thing they wanted was to enable the unwashed masses to vote away their wealth and privilege.
Ok, you know things. Cool. So why are you being so dodgy about hyperspecific political tendencies? Why is such a precarious, controlled, center-left (by ur standard) system like the US worth balancing?
This is literally objectively not true:
https://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/princeton-experts-say-us-no-longer-democracy
The US is not, and has never been, a democracy, because the people do not direct the actions of the government except on the margins. There is no democratic input on imperialism or capitalism. Those are invariate, and the system is designed to protect those from public influence.
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Including the time when white people could own black people as slaves? That democracy?
The US founding fathers were very explicit about how they intended to set up a constitutional order that would protect their class interest against democracy. The last thing they wanted was to enable the unwashed masses to vote away their wealth and privilege.
and yet these and other popular policies remain politically impossible
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Ok, you know things. Cool. So why are you being so dodgy about hyperspecific political tendencies? Why is such a precarious, controlled, center-left (by ur standard) system like the US worth balancing?