[Iran Press TV] Democracy in the United States is a "hollow myth" which has led to the American people losing confidence in the "oligarchy... derived from the Greek words oligos,
a fewand the verb archo,
to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you...
system" running the country, a researcher and historian in Washington says.
"The American public doesn't have real reason to trust their government right now that seems to only work for the rich and work for people in Israel," Randy Short told Press TV on Sunday.
"Democracy in reality is a hollow myth for the rich. The oligarchical system of America is becoming more and more evident to even the American public," Shorts stated.
He said the US government suffers from a "lack of leadership, a lack of vision, a lack of passion about solving problems that the American people face, (such as) mass unemployment, the collapsing infrastructure, the lack of care for seniors, the collapsing school system, the lack of jobs."
"The American public doesn't see leadership and they don't see voting as necessarily as being the answer because you a monopoly of a two party system."
"They (American people) look at the US government giving billions of dollars to terrorist groups in Syria and now the same terrorist groups that we funded are gonna be fought as number one domestic terror threat."
According to new poll, most Americans are "not confident" that the US government can effectively minimize the threat posed from terrorist attacks, mass shootings, racial tensions and economic uncertainty in the US.