So this is democracy....Scathing!

[HeresyLives]

Scathing to the UK, Canada and the US...and written by a genuine left-winger!


Gerald Caplan
So this is democracy

The West at its best: Britain is in shambles, America's on the verge of armed populist revolt and Canada's watching its values crumble


Lucky old Afghanistan and Iraq. The Western world is ready and raring to introduce you to the joys of real democracy. And aren't we just the ones to do it?

Look at old blighty. With a British election imminent, Gordon “Bully Boy” Brown fights for his political life, with a new scandal revealed almost daily. For those of us who grew up identifying with the Labour Party, the last thirteen years of “New Labour” rule under Tony Blair and BBB have come as a demoralizing blow.

-snip-

But at least Britain doesn't have America's problems. A country bitterly divided, a Congress barely functional, a President who's lost the trust of many of those who elected him and reinforced the opposition of the 54 per cent of whites who voted against him – who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize by escalating the unwinnable war in Afghanistan.


An angry populist coalition so pathological and apocalyptic many are arming for the moment the White House imposes its dictatorship, an opportunistic right-wing leadership ready to countenance the craziest and most inflammatory threat by the Tea Party movement, high-profile media stars who routinely compare Barack Obama to Hitler, a militia known as the Oath Keepers consisting of armed military vets and former cops who urge citizens to disregard any laws they don't agree with.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/so-this-is-democracy/article1491956/

[Ozymanithrax]

1. Boy, he has our number...

[leftstreet]

2. What bullshit. America is NOT a divided country

No matter how hard the politician$ and M$M try...it just won't fly

[MadHound]

5. Nice little fantasy world you're living in

Out here in the real world America is most definitely a divided country.

[timtom]

8. Well, at least DU is a divided "country"

(See below)

There is a great deal of polarization going on in this country.

[ThomWV]

9. Maybe not where you live, but here the split is dramatic

[yurbud]

14. you're right--it all belongs to the same handful of people

[Moochy]

3. Pax Americana

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Bravo! I have never seen so much hyperbole in one article.

[Fumesucker]

6. I thought this paragraph was pretty accurate..

And the part I bolded is dead efffin' on..


A Democratic Party as venal and opportunistic as the vile Republicans, a system of government often run by greedy special interests and their armies of lobbyists, an administration whose senior economic advisers helped create the economic crisis, a judicial system so partisan it operates on the basis of politics and ideology rather than law, a media running the full ideological gamut from centre-right to lunatic right – Brits must be grateful for their small problems.

[malaise]

7. I like the article

Rec

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. A modest change to your bolding:

A Democratic Party as venal and opportunistic as the vile Republicans, a system of government often run by greedy special interests and their armies of lobbyists, an administration whose senior economic advisers helped create the economic crisis, a judicial system so partisan it operates on the basis of politics and ideology rather than law, a media running the full ideological gamut from centre-right to lunatic right – Brits must be grateful for their small problems.

[PufPuf23]

10. Sad but true, alas.

To many of us are isolated and alone without many options.

The news of the day (which I mainly get from DU and links from DU) is depressing.

We have to get past survival and fear to do good.

[snagglepuss]

13. "We have to get past survival and fear to do good." Hammer meets nail.

That should be a bumper sticker. :thumbsup: :hi:


"I will go a step further with my will, not only act with it, but believe as well; believe in my individual reality and creative power." William James

[3324SS]

11. Yes America is Divided and It will Get Worse

Proof, Dems are even divided here.

Some Dems thinks that Blue Dogs and Anti-Choicers should be Dems, I and many others do not.

I do not like ANY Republican, I even go as far as to not do business with them or hire them.

Being a Dem does not mean we have to tolerate any Republican/Blue Dog/Teabagger, etc... these so called "people" are scum, hell bent on the destruction of America with a goal of the establishment of a Fascist Theocratic State.

You want to be nice to them, fine do so at your own peril, many Pubs would enjoy nothing more then eliminating you.

Until the Dems get mad, really mad and are willing to fight back the Republican/Blue Dog/Teabagger, etc will attack and not stop till we are eliminated. We are seeing it now right before our eyes.

What is the solution? Dissolve the current USA, the current 50 state configuration is not working any more.

For those that think that being nice will work, well you are in for a big disappointment.

[Bicoastal]

15. You mean Democrats are DIVIDED at DemocraticUnderground?

HOLY SHIT! :wow: