The United States is a democracy only for the 1% cliques.

 

 

To Jimmy's question about Sanders' 2020 campaign being a psy-ops operation to curtail any progressive action momentum -

I would assert that not only was this true, but his 2016 campaign was as well. I think (now) that Sanders had never any real intention of actually running for PUSA.

I think the establishment understood that the Occupy Wall Street movement represented a real and serious threat to their hegemony. They understood that the best way to curtail this was to present a pretend-candidate who can cosplay the whole progressive schtick enough; to convince the progressive supporters to end up voting blue no matter who. The goal was to ultimately derail and defuse the movement, which is what ended up happening.

That's enough to know that the United States never has been (and never will be) a democracy for the majority. It's the illusion of democracy for the majority. Only the 1% really benefits from this capitalist system, and I would argue they themselves are now destroying it. Reason being - to re-organize things into a more fascist system.