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Home Front: Politix
US 'democracy' is run by and for the oligarchs: Analyst
2021-05-02
[PRESSTV] The United States is not a democracy. It is "the global capitalist system run by and for the oligarchs" who control the country, according to an American political commentator in Oregon.

Charles Dunaway made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday after US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
called the January 6 attack on the Capitol by former President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s loyalists an "existential crisis," stressing that while American democracy survived, "the struggle is far from over."

"The insurrection was an existential crisis—a test of whether our democracy could survive. It did," Biden said Wednesday at his first joint address before Congress.

"But the struggle is far from over. The question of whether our democracy will long endure is both ancient and urgent."

Dunaway said, "Biden, or to be more precise the gaggle of Washington insiders who prepare his teleprompter scripts, speaks in coded language. The January 6th insurrection did reveal an existential crisis, but one that has nothing to do with democracy. The political jargon of the US government has been particularly effective on its political class who may still believe there is a democracy here, but the people of this nation are rapidly discovering there is not."

"When US leaders talk about democracy, they mean the global capitalist system run by and for the oligarchs who control the United States. In this definition, nations that hold regular elections in which all citizens can participate - Iran, Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
, China, and Russia - are considered authoritarian regimes while those who make a mockery of the term like the Zionist regime in Paleostine are hailed as great democracies," he stated.

"The existential crisis engendered by the storming of the US Capitol is one of credibility. Can anyone take the US seriously as a world leader when it is so bitterly divided internally? When its people have no faith in the government or in the press or even in their academic institutions, can it long survive as the world hegemon? Can a nation that cannot house, feed, educate or provide medical care to its people continue to see itself as an exceptional nation?" the analyst asked.

"As Biden suggests, the US regime will continue to struggle to regain its status. It will continue trying to force other nations to obey its dictates and punish those who refuse. In the end, it will fail; but many thousands both inside the US and out will continue to suffer because of its obstinate refusal to accept reality," he concluded.

Posted by:Fred

#7  What idiocy. America is like 245 years old.

As my lovely wife once observed, "the gum on London sidewalks is older"
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-05-02 11:15  

#6  Josh Hawley warns Big Tech is trying to 'transform America and silence our speech' in book that was canceled by Simon & Schuster after Twitter campaign BUT will hit shelves this week
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-05-02 11:14  

#5  Been that way since at least the late 90s.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-05-02 09:07  

#4  Republics are hard to survive the natural behavior of man; tribalism, territorial instinct, and hierarchical order. Thus they are 'unnatural', but possible as flying when one arranges and enforces decentralization, checks and balances, and constrains the 'lust' for power. Power has a tendency to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-05-02 08:06  

#3  The United States is not a democracy. It is "the global capitalist system run by and for the oligarchs" who control the country

A man by the name of Donald Trump forced their masks to slip. It would appear those who hold the real power hate him for it.


Posted by: Besoeker   2021-05-02 07:28  

#2  The question of whether our democracy will long endure is both ancient and urgent

What idiocy. America is like 245 years old.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-05-02 01:07  

#1  Chinese ones?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-05-02 01:01  

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