Democracy in The U.S.

[BayCityProgressive]

SO I have been thinking a lot about US democracy and how we are always told we have the best democracy. We constantly hear critics attack Cuba, China, France, Vebezuela, Iran, Russia ect. but who can really say what a Democracy even is? These countries along with all others in the world have their problems to be sure, but what about us? We have no democracy when it comes to foreign policy decisions...we have two parties both corporate owned and serving the rich. Because of our winner take all system there is almost no way another party can break onto the scene. Hence, even when presidents change 90% of the policies remain the same. We have to go by an electoral college and not the popular vote of the people. Our media is all corporate owned and blatantly slanted towards corporations. We have the worst union/labor laws of the Western world, and make no mistake, worker solidarity in unions is a part of being a democratic society. Most members of our society are denied this. We also have no economic freedom. All of us are in debt for cars homes ect. and most of the wealth is concentrated in the top 5%. Sure we have the pretense of democracy..you can go once every couple years and vote for a Dem or Rep, but studies have shown if you are poor you are likely to stay poor, if you're middle class you are likely to stay middle class, and if you are rich...well you're not going anywhere. Your workplace decision making remains abysmal, we have no say in foreign policy and will always remain in debt to the big banking system that both parties support. We have seen in US history that many times when a movement has surfaced to overthrow this system it has been snuffed. Many times socialists who have been elected in the US have been flat out denied their right to serve and we also have gone through things like McCarthyism whenever there is a challenge to the established power structure.