Trump and his abuses of power are the result of a broken down system that claims to be “democracy.”

By SJ Otto 

Never have I seen a more unfit person take on the mantle of “president of the United States” than the impulsive and idiotic Donald Trump. Any system that allows such a person to get elected and hold power is clearly broken down. US democracy is simply not working at all.

When 40 percent of the population actually back and support a man like Trump, I have to wonder if democracy itself is the problem. There is seriously something wrong when a country has so many people willing to support this buffoon and bully. This is a man who was exposed saying in affect, he could walk up to a woman and grab her “pussy” because he is rich and powerful. Even after bragging about this, he still got elected president.

Trump, seems to claim that internal riots at the US Embassy in Iraq, where actually the work of Iran.

If we can believe Trump, somehow the Iranian government convinced people, living in an occupied country, where they are treated as second or third class citizens, where their lives are taken and no one in the US cares, made all of those people mad enough to riot against the embassy. This is what he wants us to believe. That line of thinking is belligerent and completely idiotic.

His main henchman, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is supporting Trumps faulty logic and has even tried to convince this country and its people that Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Iranian Quds Force, has had plans to make attacks on this country. It was Trump who broke an agreement that the US and Iran signed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Next he put crippling sanctions on Iran. He backed them into a corner and now he wants all out war.

The worst part of all of this is that our military establishment has been fully supported by BOTH parties in Congress, for the last 40 years. We have had only two parties in Congress since before the US Civil War. For those of us opposed to the endless wars and occupations that have occurred since the days of Ronald Reagan, we have no one to vote for. Even if Bernie Sanders and the so called “Squad” object to this new war, most of the Democrats will probably avoid opposing these reckless actions and that small group will have no real impact on Congressional inaction.

There is a real case that democracy in US is dead, if it ever was alive in the fist place. Republicans have used gerrymandering and have learned to manipulate the Electoral College, so that they don’t even have to win elections. They can hold office with a minority of the vote. We also have an entrenched system with only two political parties. No one has ever won the presidency belonging to any other political party. This is also true of the Senate and most members of the House of Representatives. There have been a few people elected to Congress as independents. It has been possible to get elected without a party, as was done by Bernie Sanders for most of his career. Now has given up that distinction so he could run for president.

US democracy has always had its share of phoniness. Almost no other bourgeois democracy has just two parties.

So we have two issues going on here, first there is the endless war that this country wages all around the world. The mainstream press has done little, if anything, to oppose any of these endless wars. The second issue is the reckless actions of a man who manipulated a messed up system, The Electoral College, a system that should have been demolished years ago.

The original idea behind democracy is that people can make decision about the way they live. That is not what has been happening in the US. Businesses and special interests have used the system to manipulate people and they have bought off the electorate.

Worst of all, is having to live through possibly the most irresponsible jack ass to ever hold the presidency.  

  

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