How the U.S. Government Pretends to Be a Democracy

by Gianni Siragusa Democracy, born as a promise of fairness and representation, is today at a crucial crossroads. In the world in general, and in the Western world in particular, the decisions of political power are increasingly moving away from the real needs of citizens, tracing an ever deeper gap between the rulers and the governed. This drift is not an accident along the way but the result of a slow metamorphosis of the democratic system, wh…

The Deceptive “Democracy” Movement Threatening America’s Republic

America is a Constitutional Republic with a representative form of government, not a Democracy, but a recent surge of groups from a “pro-democracy” network has designs to change that.

How the U.S. Government Pretends to Be a Democracy

by Eric Zuesse, The Duran: It’s done in the usual way that ‘democracies’ do: by fooling the public and then ‘justifying’ its actions by citing polls showing that the public has been successfully fooled to support what it’s doing. Here is an example: On April 10th, Yahoo News headlined “House passes bill that could make it […]

If it is to be, it is up to me

Compared to my peers, I’m usually more hopeful for our republic. As someone studying political science, it’s impossible to say that our country has been perfect, or even good. We have enacted genocides, slavery, Jim Crow and segregation. We have fought wars that are disguised as heroic ventures for profit, and we’ve forcibly relocated and imprisoned hundreds of thousands of people for “national security.” However, I still genuinely feel that the…

If we admit that democracy is a political system that establishes a procedure for the majority to make decisions, the role of the opposition is to become a majority, we must also recognize that the role of the authoritarian government is precisely to prevent this alternative from arriving. We are clear about this in Spain. Then the democratic opposition is pushed into a dead end. If it accepts the rules of a game that its opponent, having the go…

Bernardo Ivo Cruz: "On Democracy in America" admin Mon, 04/14/2025 - 10:44 In the mid-19th century, a French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville was sent to the United States to study the prison system. Upon his return, he brought back a set of observations about the American Revolution that gave rise to one of the great classics in the study of political science. In his Democracy in America, Tocqueville speaks of a new political experience w…