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.

This site is designed for revolutionaries, that is to say it is not in the interest of our readers to analyze what is wrong with US bourgeois democracy. But we can’t ignore the influence of this so called “democracy” and the effect it has had on the world.

When 40 percent of the population actually back and support a man like Trump, I have to wonder if democracy and election themselves are 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.

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 the US should have demolished years ago. The US, as with Europe, has always been a bourgeois democracy. But the two party system, that has been established clear back in the 1700s, is even more restrictive than the other bourgeois democracies of the world, such as those in Europe.

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—that is Donald Trump.  

For a closer look at the workings of US Democracy, see The Idiot Factor—click here.

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