Is the United States a democracy? Yes and no. Is the United States a country of rule of law? Yes and no. What does that mean? What do these questions and answers mean exactly?
The United States is a democratic country in terms of institutional, nominal, ostensible, and outward aspects. Yes, it is a democracy. So-called “We the People” own the society. They vote and elect their elected government officials, and they are governed by those officials and by the consent of the governed.
The United States is a nation of rule of law. It has Congress in Washingdon, DC, and has General Assembly in each States. It has so-called “Honorable” judges in the State level and federal one. It has laws which are constitutions, statues, administrative laws, and common law or case laws. Yes, it is a nation of rule of law.
The United States may not be a democratic country in terms of substantial, actual, functional, internal, and fundamental aspects. No, it is not a democracy. All of people don’t vote necessarily. The political perception of those voting people are contaminated or distorted by the political propaganda of very cunning political mechanism & machine. At the end of the day, money talks in American politics. Big corporations and their money rule politics directly or indirectly, or at least have very powerful influence on American society.
The United States may not be a nation of rule of law in terms of functional and fundamental aspects. No, it is not a country of rule of law. Politicians makes laws which are against the interests of general public. Legislative process tend to be bargained, traded, negotiated, and haggled through the process of lobbying. Absolute majority of general public actually don’t know what kinds of laws are being made or discussed. That is the reality.
And So-called “Honorable” judges interpret laws arbitrarily and hide themselves in the name of judicial discretion or interpretation. It is suspected that deals of bribery are traded behind the curtains or under the tables.
At the core, there exist the social problems of American Greed and American Corruption. The greed and corruption depraves politicians, judicial officials, and government officials, who are very selfish and greedy, and who don’t care about others, general public, or the public interest of the whole society. Corrupt and greedy corporations fuel and orchestrate schemes, white-collar crimes, and sometimes physical and violent crimes especially when they think they can’t hide their white-collar crimes.
What kind of country is the United States? Is it a blessed country? Or is it a cursed country? If political deception, social exploitation, and legal coercion continue to exist in this society, human history may record the U.S. as a country of failure, corruption, depravity, or decadence.
It is time for American citizens to provoke another American Revolution against powerful vested interests which are greedy, corrupt, irresponsible, disfunctional, antisocial, and even criminal.
The Editorial of the American Newspaper
Published: October 13, 2022
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