Interview: "The US Is Certainly Not the Greatest Democracy on Earth"
Legal expert Elie Mystal on how "US laws are designed to be ‘racist, sexist, and anti-democratic’ and how Trump is weaponizing them.
"The US Constitution was written nearly 240 years ago, laying the foundations for an independent, successful, democratic country. But, like most of the nation’s laws, it was written by and for wealthy white men."
The US is not a democracy, but an *oligarchy* and has been that for 10-20 years now.
Money and wealth determine and rule every aspect of our society and political system, left-right-and center.
@yuhasz01 people think that because we have elections that the people are in charge. that's the ultimate lie. russia has elections. are russians in charge of their own destiny? this is no different.
@yuhasz01 @DrALJONES more than 20 years
Yes, indeedy. The post-ww2 fascist project made a quantum leap starting in the 70s:
eg, re Koch arm, see Nancy MacLean's Democ in chains summary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_CnzsSeJyU
Democracy in chains talk (~10m in):
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/scholar-to-scholar-talk-nancy-maclean-pre-history-likely-sequels-of-insurrection-us-capitol/
And the Rockefeller Trilateral-Commission arm
AUR 64, 1, 2022, 65-9
https://issuu.com/nteu/docs/aur_64_01
