we do not have, and never have had, a democracy. we have a legally constituted democratic republic, reportedly. the reality is we live in an oligarchy, and have since the war of succession at least, and the people who tell us they work for the citizens are mostly liars;

The phrase “our democracy” has become a pervasive cliche in American politics. But who is the subject in this presumptuous expression?

Although never defined explicitly, the answer is implicit in what it does not include.

To a greater and greater extent, American politics revolves around black people, women, and immigrant populations from the Third World, which together form the core of the Democratic party.

The remnants of the old country are now facing obsolescence, with only a weak and ambivalent vessel, the Republican party, to defend them.

The right, whether out of denial, cowardice, or a lack of imagination, has failed to grapple with the deep roots of its demise.

Republicans ostracized “nativists” and helped facilitate the demographic replacement of their own voters with the delusion that cheap Third World day laborers are “natural conservatives,” overlooking the most naturally conservative constituency of all: white men. The right failed to conserve gender roles, as women left the home and became angry foot soldiers of a socialist revolution.

Now we observe the results. .......more........