It still has to do the obligatory “of course the USSR’s politics were totalitarian and evil and the US’s politics are open and free” bullshit, but kudos to this guy for calling Biden the leader of a nation in rapid decline on March 6th.
There were obviously no free and fair elections in the USSR.
Guardian looking at gerry mandered maps, voting machines that have never, ever matched with exit polls, the fact Presidential candidacy is closed to non billionaires, voters purged off rolls, the captured state of the RNC and the DNC (who get to decide who can and cannot run), the role of the billionaire Murdoch press in elections, the fact Princeton and Harvard consider the US an oligarchy and finally the fact most senators are millionaires
Very free, very fair and democratic
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During the era of US imperialism as US capital extended all across the globe it could afford to provide crumbs from imperialism to financially ensure its citizens saw the bettering of their lives every year. With the material conditions of its people in abundance it allowed some form of political freedom. Since the neoliberal era and the worsening of living standards each year as US imperialism dies so too will die out the political freedoms that were allowed. And even then you still can’t run as a candidate if you’re a Communist in California
Democracy is not “letting people have their say”. It is a form of state.
People forget that the word “Democracy” arose as a word to describe the slave state of athens.
Women and Slaves did not have a vote… and no seriously thinking person during that period believed that slaves, which were property, deserved one.
The State arose due to the antagonistic nature of classes and the partition of property.
Actual democracy is a class question and always has been. Under current US “democracy” this franchise does not extend to the working class and no reasonably thinking person should think so.
Good article, though it’s a bit unfair to call Brezhnev “frail and confused” when he won the trust of the nomenklatura: he was quite young really. He held power for 18 years and when he died he was still younger than Biden is now.
Think of this comparison, in true eastern European style, as a “serious joke”. First, excuse the silly part: there are leagues of difference between the intrigues of a totalitarian party state and the Democratic primaries.
Totalitarian party state? Are they talking about the US?
There were obviously no free and fair elections in the USSR.
Oh. :LIB:
Brezhnev was the nuclear superpower equivalent of a pacifist so he’s automatically a million times better than Biden
