Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy?
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There’s been an interesting debate over the years about the relation between capitalism and democracy, for example, are they even compatible? I won’t be pursuing this because I’d like to discuss a different system – what we could call the “really existing capitalist democracy,” RECD for short, pronounced “wrecked.”
It’s incredible. Here we are fifteen months into the horrific, arch-plutocratic right-wing Donald Trump presidency and still the United States (U.S.) has done nothing to protect its elections and its broader political culture from the vicious oligarchs who have subverted U.S. “democracy.”
The 2018 mid-term Congressional elections are only months away. Major party primary races are in full swing right now. Is the nation really going to stand by twiddling its thumbs while more U.S. elections and the nation’s politics are hijacked by kleptocratic interlopers and the treasonous politicos who collude with them? Time is running out!
No, I’m not talking about Russian hackers, schemers, and bots.
Sorry, this isn’t MSDNC, I mean MSNBC.
I’m talking about something monumentally more powerful than Russia when it comes to influencing U.S. politics and policy. I’m referring to the U.S. oligarchs and their highly-placed agents and allies, who make sure that there is no “great [U.S.-of] American democracy” for Russia to subvert.
“Beyond Plutocracy”: The Permanent Political Class (PPC)
Just what grand U.S. model of American popular self-rule and sovereignty is there for Russia to undermine?
It doesn’t exist.
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