I'm not even American, but as a *democrat* (with a small "d") I feel total shame watching Trump in the White House.
That the world's flagship democracy has produced *that* is a shattering blow to almost every ideal vested in this system.
It's a stain on democracy that will be hard to live down.
That the world's flagship democracy has produced *that* is a shattering blow to almost every ideal vested in this system.
It's a stain on democracy that will be hard to live down.
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A system bought by billionaires to work for billionaires.
But democracy has to work in the world as it is, not as we'd like it.
And we can't ignore the fact that 77 million people voted for Trump in a democratic election.
Also -we've seen it here with Bojo as well- we confuse politics with entertainment at our peril. We don't seem to mind fascists as long as they're funny or "not boring!" as Farage would say.
But part of the case for democracy is that it can learn from its mistakes.
So we have to be unsparing when it fails on this scale.
But we have to make a conscious choice to use it in that way.
Politics is an ethical struggle, before it can be a technocratic exercise.
We badly need to relearn that lesson.
**two cheers for democracy and all