honestly, it was over for US "democracy", to the extent that it really existed in the first place, when the USSR was dismantled. There was no comparatively progressive global economic project for the US to compete with. There was no longer an incentive to do even the most tepid social-democratic reforms in the United States. China is rising, but doesn't have anything close to the nuclear arsenal of the USSR, and its military budget still fluctuates between 1/3 and 1/5th of the US budget. since 1991 America has passed egregiously evil shit like the PATRIOT act, the "hague invasion" act, repealed glass steagal (removing any regulatory barriers between commercial and investment banking) legalized unlimited campaign donations, neutered unions, and rolled back womens' reproductive rights. None of this reactionary shit shows any signs of reversing any time soon. The country would sooner balkanize than solve its own contradictions at the federal level. "Death to America" is more of a casual observation than a defiant chant, at this point.
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obviously amerikkkan "democracy" never really existed, and amerikkka is a great satan built on top of the corpses of african slaves and indigenous first nations, but i mean even within the very narrow confines of white bourgeois settler-colonial "democracy," it's over.
Technically 🤓 democracy doesn't have to be popular, even if that's the colloquial meaning (certainly the one chuds go by with their "republic not democracy" shit). Lenin even pointed that out with his example of the ancient Greek city-states. So long as "the people" (the ones that matter) are allowed to vote for representatives and/or direct laws, and participate in assembly.
But yeah, semantics aside, American Bourgeois Democracy is failing even in its primary functions of orderly managing the affairs of the Bourgeoisie and securing legitimacy in the population's eyes.
That is what they are doing with their voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, and Constitutional Convention plans. Ensuring their radicalised voter base are the only ones getting a say.
honestly, it was over for US "democracy", to the extent that it really existed in the first place, when the USSR was dismantled. There was no comparatively progressive global economic project for the US to compete with. There was no longer an incentive to do even the most tepid social-democratic reforms in the United States. China is rising, but doesn't have anything close to the nuclear arsenal of the USSR, and its military budget still fluctuates between 1/3 and 1/5th of the US budget. since 1991 America has passed egregiously evil shit like the PATRIOT act, the "hague invasion" act, repealed glass steagal (removing any regulatory barriers between commercial and investment banking) legalized unlimited campaign donations, neutered unions, and rolled back womens' reproductive rights. None of this reactionary shit shows any signs of reversing any time soon. The country would sooner balkanize than solve its own contradictions at the federal level. "Death to America" is more of a casual observation than a defiant chant, at this point.
spoiler
obviously amerikkkan "democracy" never really existed, and amerikkka is a great satan built on top of the corpses of african slaves and indigenous first nations, but i mean even within the very narrow confines of white bourgeois settler-colonial "democracy," it's over.
Technically 🤓 democracy doesn't have to be popular, even if that's the colloquial meaning (certainly the one chuds go by with their "republic not democracy" shit). Lenin even pointed that out with his example of the ancient Greek city-states. So long as "the people" (the ones that matter) are allowed to vote for representatives and/or direct laws, and participate in assembly.
But yeah, semantics aside, American Bourgeois Democracy is failing even in its primary functions of orderly managing the affairs of the Bourgeoisie and securing legitimacy in the population's eyes.
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That is what they are doing with their voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, and Constitutional Convention plans. Ensuring their radicalised voter base are the only ones getting a say.