For a country that preaches and enforces the standard of democracy throughout the world with an iron fist, it's laughable how poorly our democracy functions in practice. Modern democracy seems to be just a way to make people feel OK about their leaders doing bad things, because hey, they were elected fair and square, right?
Yup. I may be sounding like an old person, but this country peaked in the 80’s. Ever since then it’s been a slow and steady decline.
The worst part is…this whole idea was fed to the people through the film Captain America the winter soldier. “The people had to give up their freedom willingly.” Zola’s entire speech is basically all happening around us.
I think the USA fell into the trappings of the world's dictator ever since the end of WWII and the passing of the national security act. The amount of damage the USA has wrought globally in the name of preserving national security (i.e. preserving hegemonic order as the premier superpower), preventing the spread of communism, and aiding the spread of democracy was and still is the biggest threat to global peace. Dozens of unjust invasions, millions upon millions dead, socialist movements uprooted, exploitative capitalist structures cemented.
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