#false democracy

[kingtainorman]

Man punched in face, yanked from car by Jacksonville police in viral vid...

I don't agree with Attorney Crump. We are not a democracy. We are living under an active coup. The intentional tampering of elections for over a decade, the slow adoption of acceptance to control access, the constant campaign of pyschological confusion to keep divisions entrenched, and so much more prove that democracy is a luxury for some and a dangling carrot for others.

[disharmonysworld]

Band: Chemicide

Song: False Democracy

Album: Common Sense (2022)

Genre: Thrash Metal

Country: Costa Rica

[ride-the-wild-wind]

So, this is a good example of false american “democracy’ and ‘freedom of speech’. Fucking russophobs!

[sassandfire]

Election Fraud. Chicago Board of Elections meeting.

[safaaelmalmine]

[theportraitgroans]

Don't think they aren't fighting for you.

"The part of the square back under the control of the protesters after the fighting Thursday was an otherworldly panorama of soot-smeared paving stones, debris and coils of smoldering wire from burned tires.

From the stage on the square, a speaker yelled “Glory to Ukraine!” and the crowd yelled back “Glory to its heroes!” That echoed the slogans of the World War II-era Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, guerrilla armies that battled the Nazis, Poles and Soviets in an ultimately futile quest for an independent Ukraine."

[fullpraxisnow]

...[T]he greatest tragedy lies in the persistent belief that our plutocracy is actually a democracy, that political power resides with ‘we the people’, and that the right electoral decisions will result in a better world. The salient point isn’t that the outcomes of elections don’t matter at all, but more so that they don’t matter enough. While the Obama presidency has lacked the full-on ‘dark clouds’ motif of the Bush years, and a smiling Biden might seem preferable to Darth Cheney, it remains the case that we continue our inexorable slide toward collective immolation regardless of who sits at the helm. Which presidential contestant will fix the economy? End war and halt ecological degradation? Side with workers vis-à-vis corporations, and distribute wealth downward rather than upward? (Maybe the Green Party candidate, but they aren’t booked on the show.) Not President Obomney. Absurdly, we continue to focus in earnest on which multimillionaire we want representing the middle-class multitude, which purveyor of injustice is better suited to exercise just authority over us, which corporatist is the right one to rein in corporate power, which warmonger will work to bring us peace. Elections matter, but not enough. Can we still imagine a world where we no longer need corruption-addled politics, where monied interests no longer can buy and sell power at their whim, where the voices of human beings matter more than those of corporations? We need a society where the distance between those making decisions and those directly impacted by them is shrinking rather than expanding, a system in which the conditions of our lives are determined by real people in actual communities instead of by the machinations of money and the ministrations of madness.

Randall Amster, Blinded by the Light of an Electoral ‘Reality Show’

[fullpraxisnow]

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