Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
Death to tyrants.
user-inactivated · 1421 days ago · link ·
This comment has been deleted.
Yes, exactly, but — Articles like this are written in a way that downplays the constant systemic violation of these values by the US government. It took almost 200 years for "equality regardless of race" to be a legal reality; police have been violently suppressing certain protests for a century; and holy shit do the CIA and FBI use the police and military for political ends. Sure, parts of our government look pretty democratic, but if these are core values of democracy, you have to admit that the US has a piss poor track record of actually being a democracy.